Businessman Quotes - Page 3

• I don't want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together.

  Truman Capote

  Inspirational, Motivational, Entrepreneur

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• I wanted to distance myself from those pasty faced corpses in suits I saw in airline magazine ads. If I was going to become a businessman, I was going to do it on my own terms.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Distance, Magazines, Saws

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• The suit does not represent the businessman anymore. Nor does the loud shirt represent the rock star. The same man can now wear both.

  Donatella Versace

  Stars, Men, Rocks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't mind being identified as any character as long as I'm doing a good job as an actor. I have done all kinds of roles - from an editor, judge, police officer, murderer to a corrupt businessman.

  Boman Irani

  Jobs, Character, Editors

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• Ephemeralization means the ability to do everything with nothing, or leverage, or doing more with less. So, as a businessman, I'm constantly ephemeralizing, figuring out how I can do more and more for less and less.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Mean, Ability, Can Do

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• The most important thing for me is that I've used my talents as a writer to enable the Ogoni people to confront their tormentors. I was not able to do it as a politician or a businessman. My writing did it. And it sure makes me feel good! I'm mentally prepared for the worst, but hopeful for the best. I think I have the moral victory.

  Ken Saro-Wiwa

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Ken Saro-Wiwa (1995). “A Month and a Day: A Detention Diary”, Penguin Group USA

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• I don't think I'm a very good businessman. I act too much with my heart.

  Pele

  Heart, Thinking, Too Much

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• Not everyone is equipped to be a leader, but in a sense, everyone is a leader to someone, even though you're not equipped. I think parents are a leader to youngsters, teacher are leaders, coaches are leaders, businessmen are leaders.

  John Wooden

  Teacher, Thinking, Leader

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I am a better investor because I am a businessman, and a better businessman because I am no investor.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Investing, Buffets

  "Muppets ask questions and experts answer". 25iq.com. September 21, 2012.

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• I'm not a good businessman and I don't promote myself particularly well. It's best I don't talk to anybody lest I alienate myself.

  Barry Blitt

  Good Business, Wells

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I am a businessman at the end of the day. I have grown up with Excel sheets. I start out writing my novel with spreadsheets and the milestones in each chapter highlighted.

  Ashwin Sanghi

  Writing, The End Of The Day, Ends

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• In many respects, I think a lot of businessmen have become highly insensitive to the world, the environment, to everything around them. What are they doing with the millions and millions of dollars they're making? Why don't they give anything back? That, to me, is the height of insensitivity.

  Scott Bakula

  Thinking, Giving, Dollars

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• The charge that an idea is radical, impractical, or long- haired is met by showing that a prominent businessman has favored it?an additional tactic in this strategy of defense?is to assert that Winston Churchill once sponsored the particular idea. If one is challenged, a sufficiently careful investigation will show that he did.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Ideas, Long, Defense

  1955 Economics and the Art of Controversy.

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• The difficulty with businessmen entering politics, after they've had a successful business career, is that they want to start at the top.

  Harry S. Truman

  Success, Business, Careers

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• I will continue to distribute blankets, sleeping bags, warm clothing and food on a regular basis, in the hope that my modest efforts will give some comfort to those people we are able help.

  Mohamed Al-Fayed

  Inspirational, Sleep, 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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• 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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• Business is more exciting than any game.

  Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

  Business, Games, Entrepreneur

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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