Businessman Quotes - Page 15

• A businessman needs a laptop. Athletes need massages and the right diet.

  Lolo Jones

  Athlete, Needs, Laptops

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• We will continue to ignore political and economic forecasts, which are an expensive distraction for many investors and
  businessmen. Thirty years ago, no one could have foreseen the huge expansion of the Vietnam War, wage and price controls, two oil shocks, the resignation of a president, the dissolution of the Soviet Union, a one-day drop in the Dow of 508 points, or treasury bill yields fluctuating between 2.8% and 17.4%.

  Warren Buffett

  War, Yield, Years

  Letter To the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., www.berkshirehathaway.com. March 7, 1995.

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• The most important thing is God's blessing and if you believe in God and you believe in yourself, you have nothing to worry about.

  Mohamed Al-Fayed

  Inspirational, Believe, Blessing

  Interview with Richard Quest, www.cnn.com. July 12, 2004.

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• Sometimes life's going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Stanford University

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice the manufacturer's icon on top: an apple with a bite out of it.

  Peter Kreeft

  Inspirational, Motivational, Icons

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• The businessman is only tolerable so long as his gains can be held to bear some relation to what, roughly and in some sense, his activities have contributed to society.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Long, Gains, Bears

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1972). “The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes: Essays in persuasion”

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• People rarely buy what they need. They buy what they want.

  Seth Godin

  Business, People, Entrepreneur

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• It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

  Isaac Asimov

  Change, Business, Mean

  "My Own View". "The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction". Book edited by Robert Holdstock, 1978.

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• When I looked into the mechanics of being a businessman, I found it wasn't rocket science.

  Donny Deutsch

  Business, Rockets, Mechanic

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• The average businessman began to be agnostic, not so much because he did not know where he was, as because he wanted to forget. Many of the rich took to scepticism exactly as the poor took to drink; because it was a way out.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Average, Way, Agnostic

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• In the 'bullshit department' a businessman can't hold a candle to a clergyman.

  George Carlin

  Atheist, Bullshit, Clergymen

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• If you believe our president, a former oil businessman, is going to end our addiction to oil, shame on all of us.

  Dan Seals

  Believe, Oil, Addiction

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• Our civilized world is nothing but a great masquerade. You encounter knights, parsons, soldiers, doctors, lawyers, priests, philosophers and a thousand more: but they are not what they appear - they are merely masks... Usually, as I say, there is nothing but industrialists, businessmen and speculators concealed behind all these masks.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Knights, Doctors, Soldier

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• How is it possible for one to own the stars?" "To whom do they belong?" the businessman retorted, peevishly. "I don't know. To nobody.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Stars, Knows

  Antoine De Saint-Exupery (2015). “The Little Prince: "Illustrated Edition"”, p.62, eKitap Projesi

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• You ought to dream. All our biggest businessmen have been dreamers.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Dream, Sun Also Rises, Ought

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• I used to be focused on being the dopest rapper in the game, and then once that became what I was, I wanted something different, and I wanted to become the best businessman in the game. I wanted to learn how to master the business like I mastered the rap.

  Snoop Dogg

  Rap, Dope, Games

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

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• Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.

  Thomas Szasz

  Revenge, Mistake, Inspiration

  The Second Sin (1973) "Social Relations"

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• But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance.

  William Julius Wilson

  Perseverance, Creativity, Character

  Interview with Gerald Early, www.motherjones.com. September/October, 1996.

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• Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Success, Work

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.121, Courier Corporation

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• Nobles and peasants marry early. Businessmen tend to wait.

  David Eddings

  Waiting, Peasants

  David Eddings, Leigh Eddings (1997). “Polgara the Sorceress”, Del Rey

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• A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him," my father had told me more than once. "A businessman has business books and a dream has novels and books of poetry. Most women like reading about love, and a true revolutionary will have books about the minutiae of overthrowing the oppressor. A person with no books is inconsequential in a modern setting, but a peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.

  Walter Mosley

  Dream, Father, Book

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• The Chinese say that you should never, ever buy a used desk unless you know the history of it. They claim that if it belonged to a bad businessman, his karma will befall you. This one here belonged to President Kennedy. So what do you think that means? (Randy) I don’t know, but if I were you, I wouldn’t ride through Dallas in a convertible in November. Bad feng shui. (Steele)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Karma, Mean, Thinking

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Bad Attitude”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

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• All men have the stars," he answered, "but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travellers, the stars are guides. For others they are no more than little lights in the sky. For others, who are scholars, they are problems. For my businessman they were wealth. But all the stars are silent. You--you alone--will have the stars as no one else has them--

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Stars, Men, Light

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• Perhaps the most revolting character that the United States ever produced was the Christian Businessman.

  H. L. Mencken

  Christian, Character, United States

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• More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Motivational, Prayer

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