Businessman Quotes - Page 21

• Sheer egoism... Writers share this characteristic with scientists, artists, politicians, lawyers, soldiers, successful businessmen - in short, with the whole top crust of humanity.

  George Orwell

  Writing, Successful, Artist

  George Orwell, Sonia Orwell, Ian Angus (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell: An age like this, 1920-1940”, Harvill Secker

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.

  Steve Allen

  Government, Balance, Mafia

  Steve Allen (1994). “Reflections”

  32 Copy quote

  Show source

• Businessmen they drink my wine, come and taste my herb.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Wine, Men, Drug

  5 Copy quote

• What is the city but the people?

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Motivational, Cities

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Coriolanus”, p.61, Courier Corporation

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• In a world of businessmen and financial intermediaries who aggressively seek profit, innovators will always outpace regulators; the authorities cannot prevent changes in the structure of portfolios from occurring. What they can do is keep the asset-equity ratio of banks within bounds by setting equity-absorption ratios for various types of assets. If the authorities constrain banks and are aware of the activities of fringe banks and other financial institutions, they are in a better position to attenuate the disruptive expansionary tendencies of our economy.

  Hyman Minsky

  World, Ratios, Portfolios

  53 Copy quote

• If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.

  Irvin S. Cobb

  Writing, Too Much, Good Business

  17 Copy quote

• I am just a businessman, giving the people what they want.

  Al Capone

  People, Giving, Want

  534 Copy quote

• The concept of equal pay for equal work is not only an impossible task, it can only be accomplished with the total rejection of the idea of the voluntary contract... The idea that a businessman must hire anyone and is prevented from firing anyone for any reason he chooses, and in the name of rights, is a clear indication that the basic concept of a free society has been lost.

  Ron Paul

  Equal Pay, Names, Ideas

  "Freedom Under Siege: The U.S. Constitution After 200 Years". Book by Ron Paul, 1987.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The businessman who is a novelist is able to drop in on literature and feel no suicidal loss of esteem if the lady is not at home, and he can spend his life preparing without fuss for the awful interview.

  V. S. Pritchett

  Home, Writing, Suicidal

  V.S. Pritchett (2011). “The Living Novel”, p.115, A&C Black

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's different when you become a professional, because you also have to become a businessman, and that takes something away from it.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Sports, Boxing, Different

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• This is the difference between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton and Sen. Kaine. They are career public servants. Donald Trump is a businessman, not a career politician. He built a business.

  Mike Pence

  Careers, Differences, Politician

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The successful businessman must be able to foresee possibilities, to estimate with sagacity the outcome in the future.

  Frank William Taussig

  Inspirational, Successful, Outcomes

  Frank William Taussig (2013). “Principles of Economics”, p.170, Cosimo, Inc.

  45 Copy quote

  Show source

• A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.

  Dalton Trumbo

  Marriage, Fool, Earth

  10 Copy quote

• We're not forcing people... you can support and be a supporter, but if you go beyond that and become a member, [and] if you're a businessman, your business will multiply... Everything you touch will multiply. I've always said that a wise businessperson will support the ANC... because supporting the ANC means you're investing very well in your business.

  Jacob Zuma

  Wise, Mean, People

  Jacob Zuma'sremarks at the 101st Anniversary Gala Dinner of the African National Congress in Durban, January 12, 2013.

  74 Copy quote

  Show source

• Until he lost all his money, my father was a successful north London Jewish businessman. He was unusual among his immediate family in that he was enormously cultured and had an incredible library.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Father, Successful, Library

  "Anthony Horowitz: My family values". Interview With Liza Campbell, www.theguardian.com. July 9, 2010.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I rented a car. I didn't really need one, I just wanted to make one less available. I wanted one businessman on the bus with no car.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Car

  10 Copy quote

• I've always been outspoken about the fact that I have no care for material things. I'm not going to post a picture of being inside a fancy jet. It doesn't mean anything to me. But I find it funny that - in an organic way - sometimes I find myself in this room with these wealthy businessmen drinking thousand dollar bottles of wine because of where I've gotten in my career.

  Kip Moore

  Drinking, Wine, Mean

  Source: people.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I guess I consider myself a cartoonist first, though I was "trained" as a painter/printmaker/sculptor. If there's still any resistance to cartooning in the nuts-and-bolts world of acquiring the means of survival, it's probably mostly on the pay scale. If graphic novels are selling really well and are "growing the book market" or whatever it is a businessman would say about them, I don't see it in the remuneration offered by some of the publishers.

  Chris Ware

  Book, Mean, Survival

  "Interviews: On Cartooning". "POV", www.pbs.org.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The pointless ferocities of intellectual life shock businessmen, who kill only to eat.

  Mason Cooley

  Intellectual, Shock, Ferocity

  4 Copy quote

• Here`s a guy who says he`s a great businessman. But it seems like a lot of Trump's business is built around stiffing small businesses and workers out of what he owes them, work they`ve done. He thinks that`s cute or smart or funny to basically not pay somebody who`s done work for him and say go ahead and sue me because I`ve got more money than you and you can`t do anything about it.

  Barack Obama

  Cute, Smart, Thinking

  Source: www.msnbc.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Trump is a businessman, but he is such a creature of the entertainment world. It feels that the entertainment industry is more entwined with politics than ever before.
  I just think he is who he is. You can't blame him for being who he is. He's always been like that. He's our fault - that's how I see it. We let him come to where he is. I'm not so interested in blaming him; that's being done enough by others. I'm more interested in: How did this happen?

  Robert Redford

  Thinking, Done, World

  Source: www.esquire.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think the industry tends to like to think in the narrow sort of mindset of a businessman, and businessman absolutes, and movies really exist in a much grayer region of dreams and stuff like that, and instinct is prized in movies, it's not prized with the businessmen in movies, but movies themselves often reward instinct rather than pie charts.

  Brad Bird

  Dream, Thinking, Pie

  "Brad Bird Talks 'Iron Giant: Signature Edition', The Original Ending, And More". Interview with Matt Goldberg, collider.com. October 1, 2015.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Surrogate fathers and other male figures stepped in to give guidance after my dad died. Businessmen taught me to honor my commitments; others gave me opportunities beyond my wildest imaginations. Authors and speakers set good, solid examples of high standards and lofty goals for me; mature, committed Christians nurtured and instructed me.

  Zig Ziglar

  Christian, Dad, Father

  Source: www.centerforfaithandwork.com

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• One day, a musician asked me what I did. When I told him I was to be a businessman, he laughed and said, You are not a businessman. Sometimes all it takes is one person to put an important thought in your head, and he did.

  Alexander Hanson

  Important, One Day, Musician

  4 Copy quote

• I think great businessmen are more likely made than born. I don't know if it's from your upbringing, your parental background, the struggles you go through. In my own particular situation, I left school at 15 and I was struggling to survive in the jungle and that was a great education. So I think just getting out there, hands on, learning to survive teaches you a lot.

  Richard Branson

  Struggle, School, Thinking

  "Screw Business as Usual: an interview with Sir Richard Branson". Interview with Todd Miller, blog.sfgate.com. January 9, 2012.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source