Successful Businessman Quotes

• It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

  Warren Buffett

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

  Richard J. Connors, Warren Buffett (2010). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.5, John Wiley & Sons

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• It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Success, Motivation

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better.

  Lee Iacocca

  Change, Business, Live Life

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• Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

  Donald Trump

  Inspirational, Investing Money, Investment Success

  Donald Trump (2016). “Trump: The Art of the Deal”, p.26, Random House

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• Experience taught me to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper.

  Donald Trump

  Investing Money, Entrepreneur, Paper

  Donald J. Trump, Tony Schwartz (2009). “Trump: The Art of the Deal”, p.28, Ballantine Books

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• You're generally better off sticking with what you know.

  Donald Trump

  Investing Money, Entrepreneur, Financial

  "10 Things I Learned About Donald Trump in ‘The Art of the Deal’" by Josh Barro, www.nytimes.com. September 22, 2015.

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• Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

  Donald Trump

  Motivational, Money, Business

  Donald J. Trump, Tony Schwartz (2009). “Trump: The Art of the Deal”, p.28, Ballantine Books

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• 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

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• What is qualified? What have I been qualified for in my life? I haven't been qualified to be a mayor. I'm not qualified to be a songwriter. I'm not qualified to be a TV producer. I'm not qualified to be a successful businessman. And so, I don't know what qualified means.

  Sonny Bono

  Mean, Successful, Tvs

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• Donald Trump's a businessman, he's a very successful businessman. I think he's a marketing genius.

  Doug Ford, Jr.

  Successful, Thinking, Marketing

  Source: www.citynews.ca

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• The philosophy of being able as a woman to decide what you want and being unashamed about making it happen was new. Most successful businessmen are in that role. 'No' is never perceived as the end of the line. 'No' just means picking a new avenue.

  Sharon Stone

  Philosophy, Mean, Successful

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• I think, as everyone knows, Charles Kushner is one of the most successful businessmen in the United States and one of the great philanthropists of this century.

  Jared Kushner

  Successful, Thinking, United States

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The most successful businessmen were often uneducated when measured by the scholastic standards of the teaching profession. But they were equal to their social function of adjusting production to the most urgent demand. Because of these merits the consumers chose them for business leadership.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Teaching, Successful, Demand

  Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”

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• My father was a very successful businessman, but he was ruined in the stock market crash. A big stockbroker jumped out the window and fell on his pushcart.

  Jackie Mason

  Father, Successful, Window

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• All people, entrepreneurs as well as non-entrepreneurs, look askance upon any profits earned by other people. Envy is a common weakness of men. People are loath to acknowledge the fact that they themselves could have earned profits if they had displayed the same foresight and judgment the successful businessman did.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Successful, Men, Envy

  Ludwig Von Mises (1974). “Planning for freedom, and twelve other essays and addresses”

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• In expectation of his demise, a successful businessman may sell out to his competitors to prepare his estate with readily marketable securities, such as U.S. Treasury bonds. The confiscatory death tax eliminates many family enterprises and promotes the growth of giant corporations.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Successful, Expectations, Growth

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• My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Dream, Motivation, Successful

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• To be a successful businessman, you must have remarkable talents; and if you have such talents, why waste them on business?

  Yisroel Salanter

  Successful, Waste, Talent

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• Some of our most successful businessmen in US grew up in orphanages. They were well treated, and they learned discipline. They learned right or wrong, and they have wonderful careers.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Successful, Careers, Discipline

  Source: rutherford.org

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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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• To distract from the president's disappointing record, Team Obama has decided to base their entire campaign on attacking the private sector and Mitt Romney's career as a successful businessman.

  Reince Priebus

  Team, Successful, Careers

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• 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.

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• You may be a well-educated, clever and virtuous person, but those qualities will not necessarily make you a successful businessman. You must give your best to each and every task you take on, and reflect on your performance with an honest and unprejudiced eye.

  Konosuke Matsushita

  Clever, Eye, Successful

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• Consider what it takes for successful businessmen and businesswomen, effective entrepreneurs and hardworking associates, shrewd retirees and idealistic students to combine forces with a creative pastor to grow a "successful church" today. Clearly, it doesn't require the power of God to draw a crowd in our culture. A few key elements that we can manufacture will suffice.

  David Platt

  Successful, Church Today, Keys

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• I'm proud of the fact that besides being known as a successful former football player, I've also worked hard to establish myself as a successful businessman, network broadcaster, sports & entertainment executive and philanthropist.

  Warren Moon

  Sports, Football, Successful

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