Business Man Quotes - Page 2

• Nowadays there is no conversation at all. Teachers distrust talk as much as business men.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Teacher, Men, Conversation

  Marshall McLuhan, Matie Molinaro, Corinne McLuhan, William Toye (1987). “Letters of Marshall McLuhan”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The plodding thrift and scrupulous integrity and long-winded patient industry of our business men of the last century are out of fashion in these "giddy-paced" times, and England is forgetting that those who make haste to be rich can hardly avoid much temptation and some sin.

  Fanny Kemble

  Fashion, Business, Integrity

  Fanny Kemble (1890). “Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters, Forming a Sequel to Record of a Girlhood, and Records of Later Life”

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• Basilicas should be constructed on a site adjoining the forum and in the warmest possible quarter, so that in winter business men may gather in them without being troubled by the weather.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Winter, Men, Weather

  "De architectura (Ten Books on Architecture)". Book by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Book V, Chapter I, Section 4), circa 15 BC.

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• When the business man who fights to secure special privileges, to crowd his competitor off the track by other than fair competitive methods, receives the same summary disdainful ostracism by his fellows that the doctor or lawyer who is 'unprofessional,' the athlete who abuses the rules, receives, we shall have gone a long way toward making commerce a fit pursuit for our young men.

  Ida Tarbell

  Business, Athlete, Fighting

  Ida M. Tarbell (2009). “The History of the Standard Oil Company”, p.292, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I'm a business man and I'm a grown man. I spend a lot of time thinking about how to restructure my life, support my family with this music... I don't have time to deal with the repercussions of breaking somebody's jaw or breaking their nose.

  Immortal Technique

  Men, Thinking, Support

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• We wish to control big business so as to secure among other things good wages for the wage-workers and reasonable prices for the consumers. Wherever in any business the prosperity of the business man is obtained by lowering the wages of his workmen and charging an excessive price to the consumers we wish to interfere and stop such practices. We will not submit to that kind of prosperity any more than we will submit to prosperity obtained by swindling investors or getting unfair advantages over business rivals.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Practice, Wish

  Address by Theodore Roosevelt Before The Convention Of The National Progressive Party in Chicago, www.ssa.gov. August 1912.

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• Unhappy business men, I am convinced, would increase their happiness more by walking six miles every day than by any conceivable change of philosophy.

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy, Men, Unhappy

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• It is imperative to exercise over big business a control and supervision which is unnecessary as regards small business. All business must be conducted under the law, and all business men, big or little, must act justly. But a wicked big interest is necessarily more dangerous to the community than a wicked little interest. 'Big business' in the past has been responsible for much of the special privilege which must be unsparingly cut out of our national life.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Cutting, Exercise, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (1913). “Progressive Principles: Selections from Addresses Made During the Presidential Campaign of 1912”

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• I object to publishers: the one service they have done me is to teach me to do without them. They combine commercial rascality with artistic touchiness and pettishness, without being either good business men or fine judges of literature.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Judging, Done

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• Bill Gates really seems to be much more of a business man than a technologist, while I prefer to think of Linux in technical terms rather than as a means to money. As such, I'm not very likely to make the same kind of money that Bill made.

  Linus Torvalds

  Mean, Thinking, Men

  Source: www.linuxfocus.org

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• Business men go down with their businesses because they like the old way so well they cannot bring themselves to change. One sees them all about - men who do not know that yesterday is past, and who woke up this morning with their last year's ideas.

  Henry Ford

  Morning, Past, Men

  Henry Ford (2015). “My Life and Work: Top Biography”, p.29, 谷月社

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• Rocinante was of more value for a true traveller than a jet plane. Jet planes were for business men.

  Graham Greene

  Travel, Men, Jet Planes

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• I am not a businessman. I am a business, man.

  Jay-Z

  Men, Businessman

  Song: Diamonds From Sierra Leone

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• Surely no one will consider us lacking in reverence if we say that every one of the "principles of modern salesmanship" on which business men so much pride themselves, are brilliantly exemplified in Jesus' talk and work.

  Bruce Barton

  Jesus, Pride, Men

  Bruce Barton (2000). “The Man Nobody Knows: A Discovery of the Real Jesus”, Ivan R Dee

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• [On dishonest business methods:] ... frequently the defender of the practice falls back on the Christian doctrine of charity, and points out that we are erring mortals and must allow for each other's weaknesses! - an excuse which, if carried to its legitimate conclusion, would leave our business men weeping on one another's shoulders over human frailty, while they picked one another's pockets.

  Ida Tarbell

  Christian, Business, Fall

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• Is creativity some obscure, esoteric art form? Not on your life. It's the most practical thing a business-man can employ.

  William Bernbach

  Art, Creativity, Men

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• I'm an atrocious business man, because it's just not the way I think about things. And that's pretty much what all that Grammy/MTV kind of stuff is tied into.

  J. Robbins

  Men, Thinking, Mtv

  "Burning Airlines". Interview with Camilo Arturo Leslie, pitchfork.com. February 1, 2001.

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• Chief among our gains must be reckoned this possibility of choice, the recognition of many possible ways of life, where other civilizations have recognized only one. Where other civilizations give a satisfactory outlet to only one temperamental type, be he mystic or soldier, business man or artist, a civilization in which there are many standards offers a possibility of satisfactory adjustment to individuals of many different temperamental types, of diverse gifts and varying interests.

  Margaret Mead

  Business, Men, Artist

  "Coming of Age in Samoa". Book by Margaret Mead, 1928.

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• The business man - the man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Business, Golf, Men

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• What I want is an art of equilibrium, of purity and tranquility, free from unsettling or disturbing subjects, so that all those who work with their brains, and this includes business men as well as artists and writers, will look on it as something soothing, a kind of cerebral sedative as relaxing in its way as a comfortable armchair.

  Henri

  Art, Men, Brain

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• The American business man cannot consider his work done when he views the income balance in black at the end of an accounting period. It is necessary for him to trace the social incidence of the figures that appear in his statement and prove to the general public that his management has not only been profitable in the accounting sense but salutary in terms of popular benefits.

  Colby Mitchell Chester

  Business, Men, Views

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• "Would you tax God?" asks a defender of church tax exemption. Well, if there were a God he should be able to pay his own way and support his own business. If not, then he should do like other business men and close up shop.

  E. Haldeman-Julius

  Men, Support, Church

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• Call on a business man only at business times, and on business; transact your business, and go about your business, in order to give him time to finish his business.

  Duke of Wellington

  Business, Men, Order

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• Reverence for life . . . does not allow the scholar to live for his science alone, even if he is very useful . . . the artist to exist only for his art, even if he gives inspiration to many. . . . It refuses to let the business man imagine that he fulfills all legitimate demands in the course of his business activities. It demands from all that they should sacrifice a portion of their own lives for others.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Life, Art, Business

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• Continue to invest in your personal development. Expand your occupational horizons by constant study . . . look to your present job as a stepping-stone along your career path. Take time to think. The dimensions of most jobs are constrained only by the mind of the uncreative worker. I like what one business man counseled: If at first you do succeed, try something harder!!!

  J. Richard Clarke

  Inspirational, Jobs, Men

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