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“A good businessman sees where others don't see.”

“Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real.”

Made Ideas Real Fortune Imaginary Businessman Contradictory Inventing

Author:David Antin

“One thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill.”

One Thing Dangerous Bills Dollars Businessman Cubs Dollar Bills Grizzlies

Book:A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

“Among politicians and businessmen, *Pragmatism* is the current term for 'To hell with our children.'”

Children Term Hell Politician Future Our Children Currents Businessman Pragmatism

Author:Edward Abbey

“A tax cut means higher family income and higher business profits and a balanced federal budget.”

“Not my political ideas. Conservatism didn’t buy this house. First and foremost I’m a businessman. My first goal is to attract the largest possible audience so I can charge confiscatory ad rates. I happen to have great entertainment skills, but that enables me to sell airtime.”

Firsts I Can Ideas Happens Political House Goal Audience Skills Sells Rate Entertainment Ads Businessman Conservatism

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“I had a job to do in the ring, and the businessmen around me had a job to do outside the ring, I did my job by beating up most of the guys they put in front of me and staying in shape, but the people I trusted didn't do their jobs.”

People Jobs Guy Fronts Shapes Rings Staying Trusted Businessman

Author:Joe Frazier

“Steve Jobs was an iconic entrepreneur and businessman whose impact on technology was felt beyond Silicon Valley. He will be remembered for the innovation he brought to market and the inspiration he brought to the world.”

World Inspiration Jobs Remember Felt Change Technology Politician Innovation Impact Entrepreneur Remembered Changing The World Executives Valleys Businessman Iconic Silicon Silicon Valley

Author:Meg Whitman

“The businessman only wants two things said about his company-what he pays his public relations people to say and what he pays his advertising people to say. He doesn't like anybody ever to look above, beyond or over that.”

People Want Looks Said Two Pay Company Relation Advertising Two Things Businessman Public Relations

Author:Don Hewitt

“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.”

People Kind Work Business Records Sells Businessman

Author:Nat King Cole

“I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman, and if I didn't give acting a try I'd regret it for the rest of my life.”

Ifs Inspirational Giving Trying Funny Acting Regret Degrees Economics Accepted Graduation Businessman

Author:Peter Gallagher

“The one thing our Founding Fathers could not foresee - they were farmers, professional men, businessmen giving of their time and effort to an idea that became a country - was a nation governed by professional politicians who had an interest in getting re-elected. They probably envisioned a fellow serving a couple of hitches and then eagerly looking forward to getting back to the farm.”

Men Giving Ideas Country Political Father Nations Interest Effort One Thing Couple Politician Fellows Serving Farms Farmers Businessman Founding Looking Forward Our Founding Fathers

Author:Ronald Reagan

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

Wanted Political Values Politics Politician Brown Businessman Criteria

Book:The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The path to power

Source: The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The path to power

“There also exists another alliance - at first glance a strange one, a surprising one - but if you think about it, in fact, one which is well grounded and easy to understand. This is the alliance between our Communist leaders and your capitalists. This alliance is not new. ... We observe continuous and steady support by the businessmen of the West of the Soviet Communist leaders.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Wells Facts Easy Leader Support Strange Historical West Communist Steady Soviet Capitalist Surprising Businessman Glances Grounded Alliances Communist Leaders

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“We need to be clear when we venerate entrepreneurs what we are venerating.They are not moral leaders. If they were moral leaders, they wouldn't be great businessmen.”

Ifs Needs Leader Moral Clear Entrepreneur Businessman Great Business Great Businessman

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“My visit to the United States has also given me the opportunity to emphasize the objective of establishing close and intensive links between the Turkish and American peoples, scholars and businessmen”

States Opportunity Given United United States Objectives Links Scholar Businessman Turkish

Author:Recep Tayyip Erdogan

“Business is a useful tool in politics, but it's not enough. You need much more than to be a good businessman, to be a good politician.”

Needs Enough Politician Tools Businessman Good Business Good Politicians

Author:Sebastian Pinera

“My strengths as a businessman lie in the design and sale of women's shoes, and I have never been comfortable with complicated or technical legal or business documents.”

Lying Design Comfortable Shoes Complicated Documents Businessman Lying Men

Author:Steve Madden

“Oh, I was never a businessman. I was a visionary, a dreamer.”

Dream Dreamer Businessman Visionaries

Author:Jim Bakker

“I fear that many of us rush about from day to day taking for granted the Holy Scriptures. We scramble to honor appointments with physicians, lawyers, and businessmen. Yet we think nothing of postponing interviews with Deity postponing scripture study. Little wonder we develop anemic souls and lose our direction in living. How much better it would be if we planned and held sacred fifteen or twenty minutes a day for reading the scriptures. Such interviews with Deity would help us recognize his voice and enable us to receive guidance in all of our affairs.”

“Business corporations in general are not defenders of free enterprise. On the contrary, they are one of the chief sources of danger....Every businessman is in favor of freedom for everybody else, but when it comes to himself that's a different question. We have to have that tariff to protect us against competition from abroad. We have to have that special provision in the tax code. We have to have that subsidy.”

Different Special Danger Source Protect Taxes Competition Contrary Favors Chiefs Code Corporations Enterprise Businessman Provision Defenders Free Enterprise Subsidies Tariffs

Author:Milton Friedman

“Every businessman is in favor of freedom for everybody else, but when it comes to himself that's a different question. He's always the special case. He ought to get special privileges from the government, a tariff, this, that and the other thing.”

Different Government Cases Special Ought Privilege Favors Businessman Tariffs

Book:Milton Friedman on Freedom: Selections from The Collected Works of Milton Friedman

Source: Milton Friedman on Freedom: Selections from The Collected Works of Milton Friedman

“Nothing could be more jolting and discordant with the vision of today's intellectuals than the fact that it was businessmen, devout religious leaders and Western imperialists who together destroyed slavery around the world. And if it doesn't fit their vision, it is the same to them as if it never happened.”

Ifs World Facts Today Together Religious Leader Vision Happened Fit Slavery Western Destroyed Around The World Businessman Religious Leaders

Author:Thomas Sowell

“This national argument is usually interpreted as a battle between imperialists led by Roosevelt and Lodge and anti-imperialists led by William Jennings Bryan and Carl Schurz. It is far more accurate and illuminating however, to view it as a three-cornered fight. The third group was a coalition of businessmen, intellectuals, and politicians who opposed traditional colonialism and advocated instead a policy of an open door through which America's preponderant economic strength would enter and dominate all underdeveloped areas of the world.”

“Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman.”

Long Businessman Retrospect Anti Semitism Intellectualism

Author:Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

“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.”

Ifs Gone Saws Becoming Entrepreneur Businessman Airline Airline Business

Author:Richard Branson

“Businessmen must move with the times...the correlation between knowledge and business as the key to success is closer than ever.”

Moving Business Keys Businessman Key To Success Correlation

Author:Li Ka-shing

“How many physicians, scientists, teachers, pastors, missionaries, statesmen, musicians, businessmen, and notable contributors to society have been murdered in the womb?”

Has Beens Teacher Musician Scientist Physicians Businessman Pastor Womb Notable Statesmen Contributors

Author:Chuck Baldwin

“Blacks own so little of the music business, it's pathetic. But I see that changing soon. Black artists, black businessmen and women will unite.”

Littles Artist Black Men And Women Businessman Pathetic Music Business

Author:Barry White

“A businessman needs a laptop. Athletes need massages and the right diet.”

Needs Athlete Diets Businessman Massage Laptops

Author:Lolo Jones

“Revolution is profitable. So the capitalists sell it... The hip capitalists have some allies within the revolutionary community: longhairs who work as intermediaries between the kids on the street and the millionaire businessmen.”

Kids Community Streets Revolution Sells Hips Revolutionary Allies Capitalist Businessman Profitable Millionaire

Book:Do it; scenarios of the revolution

Source: Do it; scenarios of the revolution

“I am a businessman. I am anything I need to be at any time.”

Needs Businessman

Author:Frank Lucas

“No self-respecting small businessman with a brain in the right place would ever employ a lady of child-bearing age.”

Children Self Age Brain Businessman Small Business Right Place

Author:Godfrey Bloom

“I had the most reversed education possible. Every parent wants their son to be a businessman, respectable - me, it was the opposite. When I had an artist career my mum was like, 'Oh finally, I'm proud of you!”

Want Artist Parent Careers Son Proud Opposites Mum Businessman Respectable Proud Of You

Author:David Guetta

“Sheer egoism... Writers share this characteristic with scientists, artists, politicians, lawyers, soldiers, successful businessmen - in short, with the whole top crust of humanity.”

Writing Whole Artist Humanity Successful Share Politician Scientist Soldier Lawyer Characteristics Sheer Businessman Egoism Successful Business Successful Businessman

Book:The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell: An age like this, 1920-1940

Source: The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell: An age like this, 1920-1940

“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.”

Knows Years Persons Night Worry Terrible Things To Do Businessman Terrible Things

Author:Jim DeMint

“I want to get just as many people ready for Heaven as I can. Hell is a place where there is 'weeping and gnashing of teeth'; Heaven is a place of joy, happiness and no tears . . . Being a soul winner is greater than being a preacher or a great doctor or a great dentist or a great businessman. Let's get people ready for Heaven.”

People Want I Can Soul Joy Heaven Hell Greater Tears Ready Doctors Teeth Winner Preacher Businessman Weeping Dentist Joy Happiness Great Business Great Businessman

Author:Lee Roberson

“The businessmen have corrupted liberty by trying to propose it as a material quality.”

Trying Quality Liberty Materials Businessman Propose

Author:Philip Wylie

“No young kid growing up dreams of someday becoming a businessman. He wants to be a fireman, a sponsored athlete or a forest ranger The Lee Iacoccas, Donald Trumps, and Jack Welchs of the business world are heroes to no one except other businessmen with similar values.”

World Want Dream Kids Young Values Growing Up Growing Trump Becoming Hero Athlete Forests Someday Businessman Rangers Business World Fireman Kids Growing Up

Author:Yvon Chouinard

“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.”

Ifs Wanted Term My Own Saws Distance Magazines Suits Ads Businessman Corpses Airline Distance Myself Pasties

Author:Yvon Chouinard

“If you owe $50, you're a delinquent account. If you owe $50,000, you're a small businessmen. If you owe $50 million, you're a corporation. If you owe $50 billion, you're the government.”

Ifs Government Millions Accounts Billions Corporations Businessman Small Business Delinquents

Author:Lynn Townsend White, Jr.

“No matter what our job is, we view it not as our purpose in life but rather as where God has sovereignly placed us for the purpose of making Christ known and his name great. If you are a teacher, if you are a politician, if you are a businessman, if you are in agriculture, if you are in construction, if you are in technology, if you are in the arts, then you should not be saying, ‘I need to find my life’s purpose in this work,’ but rather, ‘I need to bring God’s purpose to this work.’”

Ifs Needs Should Art Matter Jobs Purpose Names Christ Views Known Technology Teacher Politician No Matter What Purpose Of Life Construction Agriculture Businessman Our Purpose In Life

Author:Matt Chandler

“Be realistic and truthful - and tell Hong Kong businessmen honestly that they should go for long-term investments since it is unlikely money can be made in the short haul.”

Should Long Made Term Honest Investment Honestly Long Term Realistic Truthful Businessman Unlikely Hong Kong Haul Long Haul

Author:Zhu Rongji

“The executives who run the fast food industry are not bad men. They are businessmen. They will sell free-range, organic, grass-fed hamburgers if you demand it. They will sell whatever sells at a profit.”

Ifs Men Running Industry Demand Sells Profit Range Grass Executives Feds Businessman Fast Food Hamburgers Bad Man Food Industry Fast Food Nation

Book:Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

Source: Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

“CNN International, Al-Jazeera and BBC are the same in how they report mostly that America is wrong and bad.”

America International Reports Als Businessman Cnn

Author:Roger Ailes

“I don't have any focus groups on talent and programming. If I need five people in a mall to be paid $40 to tell me how to do my job, I shouldn't do my job.”

People Ifs Needs Jobs Five Focus Groups Talent Paid Programming Businessman Malls Focus Groups

Author:Roger Ailes

“We will continue to ignore political and economic forecasts, which are an expensive distraction for many investors and businessmen. Thirty years ago, no one could have foreseen the huge expansion of the Vietnam War, wage and price controls, two oil shocks, the resignation of a president, the dissolution of the Soviet Union, a one-day drop in the Dow of 508 points, or treasury bill yields fluctuating between 2.8% and 17.4%.”

“As a businessman, Frank Lorenzo gives capitalism a bad name.”

Giving Names Capitalism Aviation Frank Businessman Airline

Author:William F. Buckley, Jr.

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