Businessman Quotes - Page 4

• Ideas in secret die. They need light and air or they starve to death.

  Seth Godin

  Business, Light, Air

  Seth Godin (2004). “Free Prize Inside: How to Make a Purple Cow”, p.112, Penguin

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• Change is not a threat, it's an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is.

  Seth Godin

  Inspirational, Business, Opportunity

  Seth Godin (2012). “Survival Is Not Enough: Shift Happens”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• There's no shortage of remarkable ideas, what's missing is the will to execute them.

  Seth Godin

  Motivational, Business, Ideas

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• If you see a bandwagon, it's too late.

  James Goldsmith

  Leadership, Motivation, Business

  "Sir James Goldsmith, Financier, Dies at 64" by Youssed M. Ibrahim, www.nytimes.com. July 20, 1997.

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• The new source of power is not money in the hands of a few, but information in the hands of many.

  John Naisbitt

  Inspiring, Success, Motivation

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• The only way around is through.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Motivational, Attitude

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• Saying no to loud people gives you the resources to say yes to important opportunities.

  Seth Godin

  Business, Opportunity, People

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• I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day to day affairs that they had no time for friend making.

  B. C. Forbes

  Success, Retirement, Business

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• Business is more exciting than any game.

  Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

  Business, Games, Entrepreneur

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• Life is too complicated not to be orderly.

  Martha Stewart

  Motivational, Success, Business

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• It seems to me that today, if the artist wishes to be serious - to cut out a little original niche for himself, or at least preserve his own innocence of personality - he must once more sink himself in solitude. There is too much talk and gossip; pictures are apparently made, like stock-market prices, by competition of people eager for profit; in order to do anything at all we need (so to speak) the wit and ideas of our neighbors as much as the businessmen need the funds of others to win on the market. All this traffic sharpens our intelligence and falsifies our judgment.

  Edgar Degas

  Cutting, Artist, Winning

  Edgar Degas' notebook entry (circa 1860), as quoted in "Artists on Art: From the XIV to the XX Century" edited by Robert Goldwater, 1945.

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• I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha. He and I never discussed his parentage, which was an open secret, but it fascinated me.

  Arthur Golden

  Mother, Father, School

  Random House Author Q&A. From the Trade Paperback edition, www.randomhouse.com.

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• Eazy-E was not a rapper! He was a stone cold businessman. EAZY use to say that out of His own mouth. But one thing that he did have when it came to his artistry , is that voice. At least Eazy-E admitted he had ghost writers & people that wrote for him. Some of today's super star rappers will not admit they have ghost writers. Eazy-E always kept it 1000.

  Kokane

  Stars, Rapper, Voice

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• My head's not in the clouds, but I think I've gotten too much credit for being an astute businessman.

  Steven Spielberg

  Thinking, Clouds, Credit

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• One of my first role models was Eugene Lang, a wealthy businessman who went back to his elementary school in East Harlem and addressed the sixth-grade class. He looked out at that sea of faces and said, "If any of you wants to go to college, I will pay for it." When I read that, I burst into tears. It was so generous and so basic. Not fluffy. I can't understand why we scrimp on education and shortchange our kids. Why would the citizenry do that to the people who are going to inherit its republic?

  Bette Midler

  Kids, School, College

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• Great businessmen are creators.

  Eric Cantona

  Creator, Great Businessman

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• Donald Trump, as a businessman, he's not much of a builder and he's not much of dealmaker and he certainly isn't very good at making expenses line up with income. But he is a marketing genius. He must have seen an empty market niche that no one but him filled.

  David Frum

  Marketing, Genius, Niche

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Horse, Entrepreneur

  Oscar Wilde “The Picture of Dorian Gray - and more”, Eighty Pence Books

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• I own my own company, so I've never had businessmen telling me what to do or getting worried if something doesn't sell. I've always had my own access to the public, because I started off making my clothes for a little shop and so I've always had people buying them.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Clothes, People, Littles

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• I am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a law suit.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Law, White, Suits

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• I'm an entrepreneur, a businessman. I've got a lot of money, and that doesn't go very well with the whole 'starving artist in a garret' routine.

  Felix Dennis

  Artist, Entrepreneur, Routine

  "Felix Dennis talks iPad poetry, Apple approvals and tablets for the elderly". Interview with Stuart Dredge, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2011.

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• There is a yearning for people to return to elementary moral virtues, such as integrity and commitment. We distrust people who have no centering of values. We greatly respect businessmen, for example, if they display those virtues, even if we don't necessarily agree with the people.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Integrity, Commitment, People

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• A country doesn't need a businessman to run it: it needs a heartful, worldly, compassionate leader.

  George Saunders

  Running, Country, Leader

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• If one looks at the history of India after independence in 1947, for the first 30 to 40 years I think we were effectively given up as a basket case because we made various attempts through socialism to effectively alleviate poverty and keep growing but that model didn't work. So even when the pre-90s when we spoke to foreign corporation of foreign businessmen who wanted to do business with us, we were always a land of opportunity but an opportunity whose time have not yet come.

  Cyril Shroff

  Opportunity, Thinking, Independence

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Donald Trump is a businessman, not a career politician. He actually built a business. Those tax returns that were - that came out publicly this week show that he faced some pretty tough times 20 years ago. But like virtually every other business, including the New York Times not too long ago, he used what's called net operating loss. We have a tax code that actually is designed to encourage entrepreneurship in this country.

  Mike Pence

  Country, Loss, Long

  "Trump team says Kaine dodged debate questions, Clinton camp says Pence didn't want to defend Trump". "The Kelly File" with Megyn Kelly, www.foxnews.com. October 04, 2016.

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