Businessman Quotes - Page 14

• Not my political ideas. Conservatism didn’t buy this house. First and foremost I’m a businessman. My first goal is to attract the largest possible audience so I can charge confiscatory ad rates. I happen to have great entertainment skills, but that enables me to sell airtime.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Skills, Ideas, Goal

  "Late-Period Limbaugh". www.nytimes.com. July 6, 2008.

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• I had a job to do in the ring, and the businessmen around me had a job to do outside the ring, I did my job by beating up most of the guys they put in front of me and staying in shape, but the people I trusted didn't do their jobs.

  Joe Frazier

  Jobs, People, Guy

  "Fire Still Burns Inside Smokin' Joe Frazier" by Vincent M. Mallozzi, www.nytimes.com. October 18, 2006.

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• Oh, I was never a businessman. I was a visionary, a dreamer.

  Jim Bakker

  Dream, Dreamer, Visionaries

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Businessmen go down with their businesses because they like the old way so well they cannot change.

  Henry Ford

  Curiosity, Way, Adaptability

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• Business corporations in general are not defenders of free enterprise. On the contrary, they are one of the
  chief sources of danger....Every businessman is in favor of freedom for everybody else, but when it comes to himself that's a different question. We have to have that tariff to protect us against competition from abroad. We have to have that special provision in the tax code. We have to have that subsidy.

  Milton Friedman

  Competition, Special, Different

  "Defaming Milton Friedman" by Johan Norberg, reason.com. October 2008.

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• I want to get just as many people ready for Heaven as I can. Hell is a place where there is 'weeping and gnashing of teeth'; Heaven is a place of joy, happiness and no tears . . . Being a soul winner is greater than being a preacher or a great doctor or a great dentist or a great businessman. Let's get people ready for Heaven.

  Lee Roberson

  Doctors, People, Joy

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• The businessmen have corrupted liberty by trying to propose it as a material quality.

  Philip Wylie

  Trying, Liberty, Quality

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• No young kid growing up dreams of someday becoming a businessman. He wants to be a fireman, a sponsored athlete or a forest ranger The Lee Iacoccas, Donald Trumps, and Jack Welchs of the business world are heroes to no one except other businessmen with similar values.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Dream, Growing Up, Hero

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• If you owe $50, you're a delinquent account. If you owe $50,000, you're a small businessmen. If you owe $50 million, you're a corporation. If you owe $50 billion, you're the government.

  Lynn Townsend White, Jr.

  Government, Corporations, Small Business

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• No matter what our job is, we view it not as our purpose in life but rather as where God has sovereignly placed us for the purpose of making Christ known and his name great. If you are a teacher, if you are a politician, if you are a businessman, if you are in agriculture, if you are in construction, if you are in technology, if you are in the arts, then you should not be saying, ‘I need to find my life’s purpose in this work,’ but rather, ‘I need to bring God’s purpose to this work.’

  Matt Chandler

  Teacher, Art, Jobs

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• Be realistic and truthful - and tell Hong Kong businessmen honestly that they should go for long-term investments since it is unlikely money can be made in the short haul.

  Zhu Rongji

  Long, Hong Kong, Honest

  "China's hard sell in the mild, mild west". www.cnn.com. May 29, 2001.

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• The executives who run the fast food industry are not bad men. They are businessmen. They will sell free-range, organic, grass-fed hamburgers if you demand it. They will sell whatever sells at a profit.

  Eric Schlosser

  Running, Men, Hamburgers

  Eric Schlosser (2001). “Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal”, p.269, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• CNN International, Al-Jazeera and BBC are the same in how they report mostly that America is wrong and bad.

  Roger Ailes

  America, Cnn, Als

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• I don't have any focus groups on talent and programming. If I need five people in a mall to be paid $40 to tell me how to do my job, I shouldn't do my job.

  Roger Ailes

  Jobs, People, Focus

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• I had the most reversed education possible. Every parent wants their son to be a businessman, respectable - me, it was the opposite. When I had an artist career my mum was like, 'Oh finally, I'm proud of you!

  David Guetta

  Son, Artist, Opposites

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• No self-respecting small businessman with a brain in the right place would ever employ a lady of child-bearing age.

  Godfrey Bloom

  Children, Self, Brain

  "Ukip's bloomer over women's rights". www.theguardian.com. July 21, 2004.

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• Revolution is profitable. So the capitalists sell it... The hip capitalists have some allies within the revolutionary community: longhairs who work as intermediaries between the kids on the street and the millionaire businessmen.

  Jerry Rubin

  Kids, Community, Hips

  Jerry Rubin (1970). “Do it; scenarios of the revolution”, Touchstone

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• Every businessman is in favor of freedom for everybody else, but when it comes to himself that's a different question. He's always the special case. He ought to get special privileges from the government, a tariff, this, that and the other thing.

  Milton Friedman

  Government, Special, Favors

  Milton Friedman (2017). “Milton Friedman on Freedom: Selections from The Collected Works of Milton Friedman”, p.71, Hoover Press

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• Nothing could be more jolting and discordant with the vision of today's intellectuals than the fact that it was businessmen, devout religious leaders and Western imperialists who together destroyed slavery around the world. And if it doesn't fit their vision, it is the same to them as if it never happened.

  Thomas Sowell

  Religious, Leader, Vision

  "Ending Slavery". townhall.com. February 08, 2005.

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• Born in Jerusalem, Wadie Said went from being a dragoman to a salesman in the United States and thence to a hugely successful businessman in Egypt.

  Penelope Lively

  Successful, Egypt, Jerusalem

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• This national argument is usually interpreted as a battle between imperialists led by Roosevelt and Lodge and anti-imperialists led by William Jennings Bryan and Carl Schurz. It is far more accurate and illuminating however, to view it as a three-cornered fight. The third group was a coalition of businessmen, intellectuals, and politicians who opposed traditional colonialism and advocated instead a policy of an open door through which America's preponderant economic strength would enter and dominate all underdeveloped areas of the world.

  William Appleman Williams

  Fighting, Doors, Views

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• Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman.

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  Long, Retrospect, Anti Semitism

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• I was never, ever interested in becoming a businessman or an entrepreneur.  If I was a businessman, or saw myself as a businessman, I would have never gone into the airline business.

  Richard Branson

  Airline Business, Entrepreneur, Gone

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• Businessmen must move with the times...the correlation between knowledge and business as the key to success is closer than ever.

  Li Ka-shing

  Business, Moving, Keys

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• How many physicians, scientists, teachers, pastors, missionaries, statesmen, musicians, businessmen, and notable contributors to society have been murdered in the womb?

  Chuck Baldwin

  Teacher, Musician, Physicians

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