Businessman Quotes - Page 6

• The businessman who assumes that his life is everything, and the mystic who asserts that it is nothing, fail, on this side and on that, to hit the truth. ‘Yes, I see, dear; it’s about half-way between,’ Aunt Juley had hazarded in earlier years. No; truth, being alive, was not halfway between anything. It was only to be found by continuous excursions into either realm, and though proportion is the final secret, to espouse it at the outset is to ensure sterility.

  E. M. Forster

  Aunt, Years, Secret

  E. M. Forster (2014). “Great Novels of E. M. Forster: Where Angels Fear to Tread, The Longest Journey, A Room with a View, Howards End”, p.861, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fall, Men, Two

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1984). “Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.171, U of Nebraska Press

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• I honestly believe that there's an element in this country in our politics that does not want to see a businessman succeed at getting the nomination for the Republican Party and does not want me to succeed at becoming President of the United States of America.

  Herman Cain

  Country, Party, Believe

  "Cain: I don't remember Bialek" by Reid J. Epstein, www.politico.com. November 8, 2011.

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• Many marriages are simply working partnerships between businessmen and housekeepers.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Marriage, Partnership, Housekeepers

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.27, BookBaby

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• As a businessman, Donald Trump has been associated with some of the worst excesses of a particular style of value-extracting and asset stripping capitalism: set up businesses, let them fail, avoid paying suppliers, use bankruptcy laws to avoid taxes for decades, then set up another business somewhere else. It is this model that is the cause of many problems we see today.

  Mariana Mazzucato

  Law, Somewhere Else, Style

  Source: www.salon.com

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• We're different men [with Donald Trump], different life experiences. But I've always been struck by our common heritage. His grandfather immigrated to this country just like my grandfather. His dad was a self-made businessman, who built up a business with his two hands. And my dad followed his dreams to Columbus, Indiana, helped build a small business in that town.

  Mike Pence

  Dream, Country, Dad

  Source: www.dailyjournal.net

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• If somebody had made that [deal] to me when I was a businessman, I would have said he proposed to give me the sleeves from his vest.

  George P. Shultz

  Giving, Vests, Made

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• I like to read first thing in the morning. I'm addicted to the Kindle. I read a lot of business books, because I feel like I should figure out how to be a real businessman before someone figures out that I'm not one. I really enjoy reading classics as well, which I try to work in once every two months.

  Matt Mullenweg

  Morning, Real, Book

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• Nowadays a businessman can go from his office straight to the airport, get into his airplane and fly six hundred or seven hundred miles without taking off his hat. He probably will not even mention this flight, which a bare twenty-five years ago would have meant wearing leather jacket and helmet and goggles and risking his neck every minute of the way.

  Percy Knauth

  Airplane, Airports, Years

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• If you owe fifty dollars you're a piker; if you owe fifty thousand dollars you're a businessman; if you owe fifty million dollars you're a tycoon; if you owe fifty billion dollars you're the government.

  Sam Levenson

  Government, Fifty, Dollars

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• Fortune is beastly - it is only suitable for cows and businessmen.

  Irving Stone

  Cows, Beastly, Fortune

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• My father was a businessman. We had discussions about honesty and dishonesty.

  John Cullum

  Honesty, Father, Discussion

  "Q&A – John Cullum (Lee Garner Sr. of Lucky Strike)". Interview with Ashley Shaw, www.amc.com. November 2011.

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• Dad loves my stuff. No matter how many times my voice cracks or I miss a tap, he doesn't care. He's like some businessman making it to his kid's recital.

  Peter DeLuise

  Dad, Kids, Voice

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• We are quite convinced that if he were alive today, as an astute businessman looking out to the future, he would be moving out of fossil fuels and investing in clean, renewable energy.

  Stephen Heintz

  Business, Moving, Today

  "Heirs to Rockefeller oil fortune divest from fossil fuels over climate change" by Suzanne Goldenberg, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2014.

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• In a global arena, what our businessmen need in order to be competitive is transparency and a level playing-field.

  Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

  Order, Levels, Fields

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• I was an opponent of Saddam Hussein when the British and American governments and businessmen were selling him guns and gas.

  George Galloway

  Gun, Government, Opponents

  "Galloway defends himself at US Senate" by Simon Jeffery, www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2005.

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• The artist is the lowest form of life on the rung of the ladder. The publishers are usually businessmen who deal with businessmen. They deal with promotional people. They deal with financial people. They deal with accountants. They deal with people who work on higher levels. They deal with tax people, but have absolutely no interest in artists, in individual artists, especially very young artists.

  Jack Kirby

  Artist, People, Ladders

  Interview with Gary Groth, www.tcj.com. February 1990.

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• Mitt Romney is a businessman, a turnaround artist, a CEO. That is who he is. The former governor has experience in the public and private sector.

  Mark McKinnon

  Artist, Ceo, Former

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• I appear wild on the outside, but I'm a conservative businessman.

  Donny Deutsch

  Conservative

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• Speaking as a human being, not as a businessman - the unions are great. The unions are great for the working people because they protect you, but I didn't see them that way as a young man. First of all, the papers would connect them with thee communists - labor unions were communists.

  Jack Kirby

  Men, People, Paper

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• I dont usually make political comments, because I am a businessman, not a politician.

  John Gokongwei

  Political, Politician, Comment

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• One can't imagine a Hollywood film whose entire purpose was to ridicule, say, homosexual activists, feminists, animal rights crusaders, or environmentalists. That would be blasphemy. Hollywood understands that religious people, particularly Christians, are the last group in America besides businessmen who may be defamed with impunity.

  Lloyd Billingsley

  Christian, Religious, Animal

  K. Lloyd Billingsley (1999). “The Seductive Image: Cinema and the Christian Faith”, p.119, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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  Science is the engine of prosperity. But you'd never know it, listening to some of the politicians. They're lawyers and businessmen, not scientists. Lawyers and businessmen massage wealth; they don't create it.

  Michio Kaku

  Listening, Massage, Lawyer

  Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. April 9, 2009.

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• I respect Georges St. Pierre as a businessman and an athlete. I don't have anything against him personally. But he's not the kind of fighter I like watching.

  Ronda Rousey

  Athlete, Fighter, Kind

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• If it is true that wars are won by believers, it is also true that peace treaties are sometimes signed by businessmen.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  War, Sometimes, Treaties

  "Letter to an American". Essay by Antoine de Saint Exupery, www.416th.com. July 1944.

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