Businessman Quotes - Page 4

• The only way around is through.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Motivational, Attitude

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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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• If you see a bandwagon, it's too late.

  James Goldsmith

  Leadership, Motivation, Business

  "Sir James Goldsmith, Financier, Dies at 64" by Youssed M. Ibrahim, www.nytimes.com. July 20, 1997.

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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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• There's no shortage of remarkable ideas, what's missing is the will to execute them.

  Seth Godin

  Motivational, Business, Ideas

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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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• 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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• Change is not a threat, it's an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is.

  Seth Godin

  Inspirational, Business, Opportunity

  Seth Godin (2012). “Survival Is Not Enough: Shift Happens”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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 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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• It seems to me that today, if the artist wishes to be serious - to cut out a little original niche for himself, or at least preserve his own innocence of personality - he must once more sink himself in solitude. There is too much talk and gossip; pictures are apparently made, like stock-market prices, by competition of people eager for profit; in order to do anything at all we need (so to speak) the wit and ideas of our neighbors as much as the businessmen need the funds of others to win on the market. All this traffic sharpens our intelligence and falsifies our judgment.

  Edgar Degas

  Cutting, Artist, Winning

  Edgar Degas' notebook entry (circa 1860), as quoted in "Artists on Art: From the XIV to the XX Century" edited by Robert Goldwater, 1945.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• Business is more exciting than any game.

  Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

  Business, Games, Entrepreneur

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• I don't speak Japanese, I don't know anything about Japanese business or Japanese culture. Apart from sushi. But I can't exactly go up to him and say "Sushi!" out of the blue. It would be like going up to a top American businessman and saying, "T-bone steak!

  Sophie Kinsella

  Blue, Would Be, Culture

  Sophie Kinsella (2012). “I've Got Your Number”, p.24, Random House

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• Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?

  Steve Jobs

  Business, Humorous, Small Jobs

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.68, Prabhat Prakashan

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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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• Who is willing to be satisfied with a job that expresses all his limitations? He will accept such work only as a 'means of livelihood' while he waits to discover his 'true vocation'. The world is full of unsuccessful businessmen who still secretly believe they were meant to be artists or writers or actors in the movies.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Jobs, Believe

  Thomas Merton (2002). “Seeds”

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