Businessman Quotes

Until he lost all his money, my father was a successful north London Jewish businessman. He was unusual among his immediate family in that he was enormously cultured and had an incredible library.

How is it possible for one to own the stars?" "To whom do they belong?" the businessman retorted, peevishly. "I don't know. To nobody.

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

As a businessman, I know President Obama understands what it takes to spark economic growth, because I have seen him in action.

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.

Sometimes I have to pause to make the distinction between Ben the teenager and Ben the businessman.

I am a competitor and always have that itch until the day I die, but I won't let the itch supersede being a businessman.

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

[Marco Rubio] you're a lousy businessman.

I appear wild on the outside, but I'm a conservative businessman.

When I looked into the mechanics of being a businessman, I found it wasn't rocket science.

Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

The Businessman is one who supplies something great and good to the world, and collects from the world for the goods.

A country doesn't need a businessman to run it: it needs a heartful, worldly, compassionate leader.

I'm a little of everything, a concerned dad, faith-based guy, businessman, entertainer and journalist. I don't have formal training as a journalist, but I think that works to my advantage.

Perhaps the most revolting character that the United States ever produced was the Christian Businessman.

I would've liked to have been a better businessman when I was younger. And of course, I couldn't, because it wasn't part of my atmosphere. I never lived with accountants, I never lived with lawyers.

It's hard for them to run away from their record. The Kochs are businessmen.

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

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

I know I was a businessman for years, and I stayed up countless nights worrying about having to let one person go. It's a terrible thing to do.

My father was a businessman. We had discussions about honesty and dishonesty.

Size of industry, concentration of market, or production notwithstanding, the consumer is best served when the businessman is completely free to pursue his profit goals.

I love being a businessman much more than being a hacker.

The businessman says 'If I don't do it first, somebody else will.' The artist says 'If I don't do it first, nobody else will.'

American authors or scientists are prone to consider the wealthy businessman as a barbarian, as a man exclusively intent upon making money.

Businessmen in society are not going to be the ones that promote anything outside of money.

What's wrong with hip-hop [is that] it became so one-dimensional; it became like a businessman thing. It's run out of creativity. It went so far off about making money that now everyone can do it.

By the time it came to the 90s, the late 90s, being a businessman was the beacon to uphold. We've been having the concept of the best rapper equals the best businessman.

Mitt Romney is a businessman, a turnaround artist, a CEO. That is who he is. The former governor has experience in the public and private sector.

The pointless ferocities of intellectual life shock businessmen, who kill only to eat.

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.

This is the difference between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton and Sen. Kaine. They are career public servants. Donald Trump is a businessman, not a career politician. He built a business.

I knew that I had to be a preacher. I had to be a minister, which was a puzzle to me because my dad was a businessman. It was a family company and I assumed that I would take it on from him.

I'm a businessman. I work for business people. The kind of thing they say is: Now we've sold a lot of records, let's sell some more.

Television represents what happens to a medium when the artists have no power and the businessmen are in full, unquestioned control.

Born in Jerusalem, Wadie Said went from being a dragoman to a salesman in the United States and thence to a hugely successful businessman in Egypt.

Dad loves my stuff. No matter how many times my voice cracks or I miss a tap, he doesn't care. He's like some businessman making it to his kid's recital.

I would prefer the [USA] government to be the policeman and not the businessman.

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.

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.

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.

I was never, ever interested in becoming a businessman or an entrepreneur. If I was a businessman, or saw myself as a businessman, I would have never gone into the airline business.

Herman Brown was a businessman who wanted value for money spent. His relationships with politicians were measured by that criterion.

A businessman admits that he 'let go' an employee because he was a Sunni Muslim. You simply have to look after yourself, he explains. I am shocked, like a good Westerner should be.

Later, at Stanford University, I thought I'd become a lawyer or businessman, but my father came to me and said he thought there was a big future in the fine-wine business.

I respect Georges St. Pierre as a businessman and an athlete. I don't have anything against him personally. But he's not the kind of fighter I like watching.

God can use anything, and anyone - even a king or a president, even a tax collector or a businessman, a priest or a prostitute, a Republican or a Democrat.

On the set, I'm a businessman.

America has its roots in a tradition of risk-taking pioneers. In more conservative Europe, if you fail in business or actually end up going to jail for it, you're finished as a businessman for good.