Businessman Quotes - Page 3

• I don't mind being identified as any character as long as I'm doing a good job as an actor. I have done all kinds of roles - from an editor, judge, police officer, murderer to a corrupt businessman.

  Boman Irani

  Jobs, Character, Editors

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• I don't want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together.

  Truman Capote

  Inspirational, Motivational, Entrepreneur

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• Ephemeralization means the ability to do everything with nothing, or leverage, or doing more with less. So, as a businessman, I'm constantly ephemeralizing, figuring out how I can do more and more for less and less.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Mean, Ability, Can Do

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• I don't think I'm a very good businessman. I act too much with my heart.

  Pele

  Heart, Thinking, Too Much

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• The suit does not represent the businessman anymore. Nor does the loud shirt represent the rock star. The same man can now wear both.

  Donatella Versace

  Stars, Men, Rocks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I wanted to distance myself from those pasty faced corpses in suits I saw in airline magazine ads. If I was going to become a businessman, I was going to do it on my own terms.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Distance, Magazines, Saws

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• The most important thing for me is that I've used my talents as a writer to enable the Ogoni people to confront their tormentors. I was not able to do it as a politician or a businessman. My writing did it. And it sure makes me feel good! I'm mentally prepared for the worst, but hopeful for the best. I think I have the moral victory.

  Ken Saro-Wiwa

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Ken Saro-Wiwa (1995). “A Month and a Day: A Detention Diary”, Penguin Group USA

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• I am a businessman at the end of the day. I have grown up with Excel sheets. I start out writing my novel with spreadsheets and the milestones in each chapter highlighted.

  Ashwin Sanghi

  Writing, The End Of The Day, Ends

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• I'm not a good businessman and I don't promote myself particularly well. It's best I don't talk to anybody lest I alienate myself.

  Barry Blitt

  Good Business, Wells

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• In many respects, I think a lot of businessmen have become highly insensitive to the world, the environment, to everything around them. What are they doing with the millions and millions of dollars they're making? Why don't they give anything back? That, to me, is the height of insensitivity.

  Scott Bakula

  Thinking, Giving, Dollars

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• Not everyone is equipped to be a leader, but in a sense, everyone is a leader to someone, even though you're not equipped. I think parents are a leader to youngsters, teacher are leaders, coaches are leaders, businessmen are leaders.

  John Wooden

  Teacher, Thinking, Leader

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I am a better investor because I am a businessman, and a better businessman because I am no investor.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Investing, Buffets

  "Muppets ask questions and experts answer". 25iq.com. September 21, 2012.

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• The charge that an idea is radical, impractical, or long- haired is met by showing that a prominent businessman has favored it?an additional tactic in this strategy of defense?is to assert that Winston Churchill once sponsored the particular idea. If one is challenged, a sufficiently careful investigation will show that he did.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Ideas, Long, Defense

  1955 Economics and the Art of Controversy.

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• The difficulty with businessmen entering politics, after they've had a successful business career, is that they want to start at the top.

  Harry S. Truman

  Success, Business, Careers

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• Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?

  Steve Jobs

  Business, Humorous, Small Jobs

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.68, Prabhat Prakashan

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• [A businessmen in plane after 9\11] asked me, "What are you working on now?" And I said I was writing a story about a mouse who tries to save a princess. I was mortified. Here the world is falling down around us, and I'm trying to tell the story about a mouse who saves a princess. I said "It doesn't matter at all now."

  Kate DiCamillo

  Princess, Fall, Writing

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Let every man be master of his time.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Motivational, Time

  William Shakespeare, A. R. Braunmuller (1997). “Macbeth”, p.23, Cambridge University Press

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• Consider it this way: what would you say if a blond homecoming queen fell in love with a short Japanese businessman? He treats her cruelly, then goes home for three years, during which time she prays to his picture and turns down marriage from a young Kennedy. Then, when she learns he has remarried, she kills herself. Now I believe you should consider this girl to be a deranged idiot, correct? But because it's an Oriental who kills herself for a Westerner–ah!–you find it beautiful.

  David Henry Hwang

  Beautiful, Girl, Queens

  "M. Butterfly". Play by David Henry Hwang, February 10, 1988.

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• When you're doing something for yourself, or your best friend or family, you're not going to cheese out. If you don't love something, you're not going to go the extra mile, work the extra weekend, challenge the status quo as much.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Weekend

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• I don't speak Japanese, I don't know anything about Japanese business or Japanese culture. Apart from sushi. But I can't exactly go up to him and say "Sushi!" out of the blue. It would be like going up to a top American businessman and saying, "T-bone steak!

  Sophie Kinsella

  Blue, Would Be, Culture

  Sophie Kinsella (2012). “I've Got Your Number”, p.24, Random House

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• I had never seen hair that purely black. It was glossy and slightly long, the ends drifting over his collar. That sexy length was the crowning touch of bad boy hotness over the successful businessman, like whipped cream topping on a hot fudge brownie sundae. As my mother would say, only rogues and raiders had hair like that." (Eva about Gideon)

  Sylvia Day

  Sexy, Mother, Successful

  Sylvia Day (2012). “Bared to You: A Crossfire Novel”, p.28, Sylvia Day, LLC

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• Who is willing to be satisfied with a job that expresses all his limitations? He will accept such work only as a 'means of livelihood' while he waits to discover his 'true vocation'. The world is full of unsuccessful businessmen who still secretly believe they were meant to be artists or writers or actors in the movies.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Jobs, Believe

  Thomas Merton (2002). “Seeds”

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• I will continue to distribute blankets, sleeping bags, warm clothing and food on a regular basis, in the hope that my modest efforts will give some comfort to those people we are able help.

  Mohamed Al-Fayed

  Inspirational, Sleep, People

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• Accuse American businessmen of being responsible for radicalism and they would indignantly deny the accusation. Yet, in one fundamental sense, they are responsible. They are responsible in the sense that they have utterly neglected to take part in the work and the organization which precede the choosing of candidates for political office. Local political organizations all over the land are conducted and controlled, as a rule, by politicians.... Businessmen have shirked such responsibilities, leaving an untrammeled field to others less capable of carrying on the administration of government.

  B. C. Forbes

  Responsibility, Government, Land

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• Please think about your legacy, because you're writing it every day.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Motivation, Business, Writing

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