Businessman Quotes - Page 5

• I went to Ethiopia, and it dawned on me that you can tell a starving, malnourished person because they've got a bloated belly and a bald head. And I realized that if you come through any American airport and see businessmen running through with bloated bellies and bald heads, that's malnutrition, too.

  Dick Gregory

  Running, Airports, Romance

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• The initial 18th-, 19th-century intention was to give the less-educated lower classes a way to move up into this new, rising middle class, to enable them to fit in. So our view of language as being class-based is an unintended consequence of the drive to help educate rising businessmen.

  Kory Stamper

  Moving, Giving, Helping

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I'm a businessman and actor and I still make appearances.

  Carl Lewis

  Actors, Appearance, Stills

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• If you were a painter and a rock and roll musi­cian and weren't established in either - to be an artist today you have to be as much a businessman to suc­ceed, you have to spend an equal amount of time doing business as you spend doing your craft.

  Debbie Harry

  Artist, Today, Equal

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The moment is ripe for an experienced businessman to talk practical, prudent economics to the electorate - which is why Mitt Romney's political fortunes are steadily being resurrected from the grave.

  Camille Paglia

  Political, Prudent, Resurrection

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• Trump is a doer. He is not somebody who pushes paper or kicks the can down the road. He's an accountable - he's a businessman. He's used to accountability, results, delivery, and performance. And I think in this case, he will go ahead and look at alternatives.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Thinking, Accountability, Delivery

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Tell the trial lawyers to get out of your state and to quit costing businessmen and women.

  Rick Perry

  Trials, Quitting, Lawyer

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• I have not changed my position. It is the same exact thing. We can not let crazed, insane businessmen who put their bottom line ahead of the planet - And I'm talking about Rex Tillerson.

  Michael Savage

  Insane, Changed, Bottom

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Inspiration, Years, Fiction

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• My dad was a terrible businessman.

  Al Franken

  Dad, My Dad, Terrible

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• I was a businessman for 16 years of my life, so when I started writing, I wanted to keep my literary identity separate.

  Ashwin Sanghi

  Writing, Years, Identity

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• With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves.

  Milton Friedman

  Favors, Notable, Enterprise

  Milton Friedman (1984). “The suicidal impulse of the business community”

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• It was sad, like those businessmen who came to work in serious clothes but wore colorful ties in a mad, desperate attempt to show there was a free spirit in there somewhere.

  Terry Pratchett

  Clothes, Ties, Mad

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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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• Leave it to me: I'm always top banana in the shock department.

  Truman Capote

  Inspirational, Motivational, Entrepreneur

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.61, Vintage

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• I think Rex Tillerson is an incredible businessman and American patriot and somebody that I think has experience across the globe that very few people have.

  Reince Priebus

  Thinking, People, Patriot

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• You can read it in history books now, but they often suppress the fact that the U.S. government tolerated [Nazi]. It's really remarkable because they claim that [Franklin] Roosevelt was impeded by the Neutrality Act. On the other hand, he bitterly condemned a Mexican businessman for sending several guns to the Republic. If you look back, oil was the one commodity that [Francisco] Franco could not receive from the Germans and the Italians, so that was quite significant.

  Noam Chomsky

  Book, Gun, Government

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• Donald Trump was not a businessman to be admired, but an example of what's wrong with discriminatory corporate America.

  Jennifer Pozner

  America, Example, Trump

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• It's a little premature to be claiming that this is a done deal, but certainly Rex Tillerson is American icon and businessman that I think is a pretty incredible guy.

  Reince Priebus

  Thinking, Icons, Guy

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• It’s better to look at the sky than live there

  Truman Capote

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sky

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.74, Vintage

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• This was solidarity. The debutante having her toenails pedicured - the housewife buying carrots from a pushcart - the bookkeeper who had wanted to be a pianist, but has the excuse of a sister to support - the businessman who hated his business - the worker who hated his work - the intellectual who hated everybody - all were united as brothers in the luxury of common anger that cured boredom and took them out of themselves, and they knew well enough what a blessing it was to be taken out of themselves.

  Ayn Rand

  Brother, Taken, Blessing

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• You never fail until you stop trying.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.

  William Shakespeare

  Food, Home Cooking, Entrepreneur

  1595 Servingman to Capulet. Romeo andJuliet, act 4, sc.2, l.6.

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• And he absolutely had to find her at once to tell her that he adored her, but the large audience before him separated him from the door, and the notes reaching him through a succession of hands said that she was not available; that she was inaugurating a fire; that she had married an american businessman; that she had become a character in a novel; that she was dead.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Character, Fire, Doors

  Vladimir Nabokov (1992). “Pale fire”

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• The person who had the greatest influence in my life was my dad, who was a wonderful small businessman, devoted to his family, devoted to the local church.

  Mike Pence

  Dad, Church, Influence

  Source: www.dailyjournal.net

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