Businessman Quotes - Page 22

• Behind every corrupt politician are 10-20 corrupt businessmen.

  Mo Ibrahim

  Politician, Behinds

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• A businessman needs three umbrellas - one to leave at the office, one to leave at home, and one to leave on the train.

  Paul Dickson

  Money, Business, Home

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• For businessmen, the world is a bale of banknotes in circulation; for most young men, it is a woman; for some women, it is a man; and for others it may be a salon, a coterie, a part of town or a whole city.

  Honore de Balzac

  Men, Cities, World

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• In the era of imperialism, businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talked the language of succcessful businessmen.

  Hannah Arendt

  Business, Taken, Politics

  Hannah Arendt (1968). “Imperialism: Part Two Of The Origins Of Totalitarianism”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• People's hands fascinate me. It's tempting to look at a businessman's left hand and see if there's an indentation from a missing wedding ring. Or maybe there's a tan line and the skin is pressed down where's he's worked a ring off his finger.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Hands, People, Missing

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• New York is eating young geniuses [businessmen] up alive. It's eating them up alive, Stone. And it's showing the beauty of the city, but it's showing the toughness and the viciousness of the city.

  Donald Trump

  New York, Cities, Stones

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• I would prefer the [USA] government to be the policeman and not the businessman.

  Rand Paul

  Government, Usa, Policemen

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• I love being a businessman much more than being a hacker.

  Kim Dotcom

  Love Is, Hackers

  "Hollywood's Villain: Kim Dotcom". "60 minutes" with Bob Simon, www.cbsnews.com. January 5, 2014.

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• Size of industry, concentration of market, or production notwithstanding, the consumer is best served when the businessman is completely free to pursue his profit goals.

  John Pugsley

  Goal, Size, Profit

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• Indeed, the "whole bourgeoisie" on whose behalf the government was acting as its "committee" was a composite of a vast multitude of businessmen appearing as a conglomeration of many different and divergent groups and interests.

  Paul A. Baran

  Government, Acting, Divergent

  Paul A. Baran (1968). “Political Econ of Growth”, p.93, NYU Press

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• I came from an intellectual family. Most were doctors, preachers, teachers, businessmen. My grandfather was a small businessman. His father was an abolitionist doctor, and his father was an immigrant from Germany.

  Pete Seeger

  Teacher, Father, Doctors

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• " many seemingly independent businessmen or craftsman are more or less well paid retainers of larger corporations, such as the cobbler, operating a United States shoe machine or an automobile dealer holding a license of the General Motors Corporation."

  Paul A. Baran

  Independent, Shoes, Corporations

  "The Political Economy Of Growth" by Paul A. Baran, Ch. 4, (p. 84), 1957.

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• I have nothing bad to say about Hulk Hogan. In fact, compared to what I have seen in the press and all the high jinks of his life, I didn't see any of that coming, man. He was just a businessman who worked out.

  Kurt Fuller

  Men, Facts, Presses

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.

  Aristotle

  Motivational, Wise, Intelligent

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• Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power is exercised by means of a negative, by the threat of punishment, injury, imprisonment, destruction. The businessman's tool is values; the bureaucrat's tool is fear.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Men, Offering

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.153, Penguin

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• Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

  Winston Churchill

  Sad, Being Strong, Lonely

  Winston Churchill (2012). “The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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  If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Inspirational, Positive, Trust

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.80, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.

  Christopher Paolini

  Inspirational, Life, Insperational

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.1032, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Self

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  Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Business, Tolerance, Democracy

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