Businessman Quotes - Page 17

• What is qualified? What have I been qualified for in my life? I haven't been qualified to be a mayor. I'm not qualified to be a songwriter. I'm not qualified to be a TV producer. I'm not qualified to be a successful businessman. And so, I don't know what qualified means.

  Sonny Bono

  Mean, Successful, Tvs

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• Sometimes I have to pause to make the distinction between Ben the teenager and Ben the businessman.

  Ben Casnocha

  Teenager, Sometimes, Distinction

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• We are each other's seventh largest trading partner, we are the fifth largest investor there and likewise, we have a lot of exchanges between political leaders, businessmen, tourists and school children too.

  S. R. Nathan

  Children, School, Leader

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• All businessmen are scum.

  Frank Dobson

  Scum

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• But I felt like Pablo Escobar felt like he was an honorable businessman. And when he killed people, I think he felt he did it because they were honorable. That they were liars and were trying to cheat him. I don't think he had a lot of respect for the politicians in Columbia at the time, so he had quite a lot of fun killing them.

  Cliff Curtis

  Fun, Business, Liars

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• A businessman admits that he 'let go' an employee because he was a Sunni Muslim. You simply have to look after yourself, he explains. I am shocked, like a good Westerner should be.

  Robert Fisk

  Letting Go, Looks, Should

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• It is my dream to create an art which is filled with balance, purity and calmness, freed from a subject matter that is disconcerting or too attention-seeking. In my paintings, I wish to create a spiritual remedy, similar to a comfortable armchair which provides rest from physical expectation for the spiritually working, the businessman as well as the artist.

  Henri Matisse

  Dream, Spiritual, Art

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• The best athlete wants his opponent at his best. The best general enters the mind of his enemy. The best businessman serves the communal good. The best leader follows the will of the people. All of the embody the virtue of non-competition. Not that they don't love to compete, but they do it in the spirit of play. In this they are like children and in harmony with the Tao.

  Laozi

  Children, Athlete, Play

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• If we can put together a Mexican businessman and a U.S. businessman, they will find a way to do more business.

  Vicente Fox

  Mexican, Together, Way

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• My father was so much more than an accomplished businessman.

  Gordon Getty

  Father, Accomplished

  "I want to make the world better" by Vadim Prokhorov, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2005.

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• You see these dictators up on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. They're afraid of words and thought. ... They make frantic efforts to bar our thoughts and words. ... A state of society where men may not speak their mind - where children denounce their parents to the police - where a businessman or small shopkeeper ruins his competitor by telling tales about his private opinion. Such a state of society cannot long endure if it is continually in contact with the healthy outside world.

  Winston Churchill

  Children, Men, Long

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• The Macau casinos have a wonderful business, it's taking in money from Chinese businessmen elsewhere who send it through junky companies to casinos to gamble. The growth continues and they have basically western managers and western accounting, so we trust the numbers a little bit more.

  James Chanos

  Numbers, Chinese, Growth

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• The problem with Mr. Obama is that you get more regulation and it's a disincentive for businessmen to hire people. You probably also get higher taxes, so in terms of the economy, he is very negative in my view.

  Marc Faber

  Views, People, Negative

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• A good chef has to be a manager, a businessman and a great cook. To marry all three together is sometimes difficult.

  Wolfgang Puck

  Together, Three, Chef

  "Meet the Chef: Wolfgang Puck". The Daily Meal interview, www.thedailymeal.com. February 21, 2012.

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• I have also just finished three weeks on a soap opera in England. The soap opera is a rather famous one called Crossroads. It was first on television 25 years ago, and it has recently been brought back. I play the part of a businessman called David Wheeler.

  Jeremy Bulloch

  Years, Play, Three

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• I think 'G.I. Joe' is a perfect example of how I'm the world's worst businessman. If I were smart, I'd be writing 'World War Z Part 12', but I have to go where the muse leads, and I've always been a huge 'G.I. Joe' fan. I always wanted to know more about these characters, these little plastic figures I played with as a kid.

  Max Brooks

  War, Smart, Character

  Interview with Leonard Pierce, www.avclub.com. July 9, 2010.

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• I don't care to analyze acting. On the other hand there is a fascination because distributors are putting out British films. You get films here with great performances you'll never see again. Why compare. We should go after the businessmen.

  Tim Roth

  Hands, Acting, Fascination

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• I pick good women, but I haven't had any luck with my men.

  Elizabeth Arden

  Men, Good Woman, Luck

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• Think of what big governments have gotten up to in this century : not one, but two world wars, the gulag, the holocaust, aerial bombing of civilian population centers, the Berlin Wall, nuclear explosions, the post office. A wicked individual might want these, but he wouldn't have the cash and connections to get them. A villainous corporation could afford them but has to market the products. The Vietnam draft would be a tough sell for even the most fiendish businessmen. "Get shot! Get killed! Get diseases from foreign women who despise you in their hearts!"

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Wall, War, Heart

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• I want to be known as a great businessman.

  Edward Lampert

  Want, Great Business, Known

  "Eddie Lampert: The best investor of his generation" by Patricia Sellers, money.cnn.com. February 6, 2006.

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• A BUSINESSMAN cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, He suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the loss.
  A bureaucrat, forces you to obey his decisions, whether you agree with him or not... If he makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences; If he fails, He passes the loss on to you, in the form of heavier taxes.

  Ayn Rand

  Mistake, Loss, Decision

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• If workers struggle for higher wages, this is hailed as "social gains", if businessmen struggle for higher profits, this is damned as "selfish greed".

  Ayn Rand

  Selfish, Struggle, Greed

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.42, Penguin

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• Profit is proof that the capitalist has given something to society that it cherishes more than the material wealth it has given to the businessman.

  Johan Norberg

  Wealth, Cherish, Proof

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• The customer is an object to be manipulated, not a concrete person whose aims the businessman is interested to satisfy.

  Erich Fromm

  Concrete, Aim, Persons

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.124, Open Road Media

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• People in places many of us never heard of, whose names we can't pronounce or even spell, are speaking up for themselves. They speak in languages we once classified as exotic but whose mastery is now essential for our diplomats and businessmen. But what they say is very much the same the world over. They want a decent standard of living. They want human dignity and a voice in their own futures. They want their children to grow up strong and healthy and free.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Strong, Children, Growing Up

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