Businessman Quotes - Page 2

• I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

  Lord Acton

  Beautiful, Funny Inspirational, Business

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• Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

  Sigmund Freud

  Happiness, Being Happy, Wisdom

  Sigmund Freud (1930). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, p.17, Courier Dover Publications

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• My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Dream, Motivation, Successful

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The small businessman is smart; he realizes there's no free lunch. On the other hand, he knows where to go to get a good inexpensive sandwich.

  Adam Osborne

  Smart, Hands, Lunch

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• Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman.

  George Soros

  Business, Wells, Humans

  Interview with Mark Shapiro, September 5, 2000.

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• Money has become the grand test of virtue. By this test beggars fail, and for this they are despised. If one could earn even ten pounds a week at begging, it would become a respectable profession immediately. A beggar, looked at realistically, is simply a businessman, getting his living, like other businessmen, in the way that comes to hand. He has not, more than most modem people, sold his honour; he has merely made the mistake of choosing a trade at which it is impossible to grow rich.

  George Orwell

  Mistake, Hands, People

  George Orwell (2016). “Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.404, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a lawsuit. It would do the cause much good. Let us banish fear. We have been in this mental state for three centuries. I am a radical. I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Men, White, Brave

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• I am a businessman. This is what I do each and every day. I love it. I love coming to work. I never have a bad day.

  Magic Johnson

  Motivational, Inspiring, Basketball

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

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• A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Sorry, Apology, Men

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• One thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill.

  Edward Abbey

  Dollar Bills, Dollars, Cubs

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.51, RosettaBooks

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• My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Book, Humor

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “The Importance of Being Earnest: Revised Edition”, p.76, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I wanted to do two things when I was growing up, about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA, and I wanted to be a businessman after my basketball career was over, and that is what I am doing now.

  Magic Johnson

  Basketball, Growing Up, Nba

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

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• I think my dad is the only Arabic descendent who is an unsuccessful businessman.

  Shakira

  Dad, Thinking, Unsuccessful

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

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• A man who is always ready to believe what is told him will never do well, especially a businessman.

  Petronius

  Believe, Men, Wells

  Petronius (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Petronius (Illustrated)”, p.183, Delphi Classics

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• Among politicians and businessmen, *Pragmatism* is the current term for 'To hell with our children.'

  Edward Abbey

  Children, Future, Hell

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• Blacks own so little of the music business, it's pathetic. But I see that changing soon. Black artists, black businessmen and women will unite.

  Barry White

  Artist, Black, Littles

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• I may be a businessman in that I set up and run companies for profit, but when I try to plan ahead and dream up new products and new companies, I'm an idealist.

  Richard Branson

  Leadership, Running, Dream

  Richard Branson (1999). “Losing my virginity: how I've survived, had fun, and made a fortune doing business my way”, Crown Business

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• I will certainly not join politics. I would like to be remembered as a clean businessman who has not partaken in any twists and turns beneath the surface, and one who has been reasonably successful.

  Ratan Tata

  Successful, Twists, Clean

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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. If bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences; if he fails, he passes the loss on to you.

  Ayn Rand

  Mistake, Suffering, Bureaucrats

  "The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z".

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• Businessmen... were not born chief executives. They were often people first.

  Richard Jefferson

  People, Firsts, Chief Executives

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• The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.

  Denis Waitley

  Motivational, Positive, Success

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• There is no alternative. A Democrat is a Republican is a big businessman, and we're all consumers instead of citizens. It just manifests in the culture, in the music, in the art. I feel a little panicky about it.

  Ani DiFranco

  Art, Culture, Alternatives

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. March 13, 2002.

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• There's so much that I want to do. I feel like I'm the Magic Johnson of rap. You know, Magic was great on the basketball court, but he's bigger as a businessman.

  Snoop Dogg

  Inspirational, Basketball, Rap

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

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• I know I was a businessman for years, and I stayed up countless nights worrying about having to let one person go. It's a terrible thing to do.

  Jim DeMint

  Night, Years, Worry

  "Interview with Senator Jim DeMint". Interview with John King, www.realclearpolitics.com. January 17, 2012.

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• I'm not the businessman. I don't deal with the business at all. Not anymore. Occasionally, every four years or five years, they tell me I've run out of money, I have to go and make some more.

  Mick Jagger

  Running, Years, Four

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