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“I may be a businessman in that I set up and run companies for profit, but when I try to plan ahead and dream up new products and new companies, I'm an idealist.”

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Book:Losing my virginity: how I've survived, had fun, and made a fortune doing business my way

Source: Losing my virginity: how I've survived, had fun, and made a fortune doing business my way

“I come from a really big family, my father was a businessman and what he always instilled in us was to be your own boss. My father built up his business, and he was by no means a rich man, but he figured out how to work four-and-a-half days a week.”

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Author:Tony Shalhoub

“...it's the same with business. If you focus on the goal and not the process, you inevitably compromise. Businessmen who focus on profits wind up in the hole. For me, profit is what happens when you do everything else right.”

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Author:Yvon Chouinard

“A real businessman or entrepreneur has no enemies. Once he understand this, the sky's the limit.”

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Author:Jack Ma

“God is a businessman. He is not going to do business with someone who shows no sign of potential return. He invests in people who demonstrate an ability to handle what He has given them.”

People Giving Shows Given Ability Return Handle Businessman

Book:The Great Investment: Balancing. Faith, Family and Finance to Build a Rich Spiritual Life

Source: The Great Investment: Balancing. Faith, Family and Finance to Build a Rich Spiritual Life

“I'm proud of the fact that besides being known as a successful former football player, I've also worked hard to establish myself as a successful businessman, network broadcaster, sports & entertainment executive and philanthropist.”

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Author:Warren Moon

“It always blows me away when I see people freak out because I've changed my mind on something. I'm not an elected official, folks. I didn't get my job by promising a bunch of things. I'm a businessman and a creator. If I don't have the ability to change my mind, if I don't have the ability to be open to different points of view, then I can't do this job properly.”

“People often get the wrong impression of Mick. The clever businessman is just one side of Mick. The other side is the same as the rest of us, a true rocker!”

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Author:Ronnie Wood

“Consider what it takes for successful businessmen and businesswomen, effective entrepreneurs and hardworking associates, shrewd retirees and idealistic students to combine forces with a creative pastor to grow a "successful church" today. Clearly, it doesn't require the power of God to draw a crowd in our culture. A few key elements that we can manufacture will suffice.”

“When the worms are scarce, what does a hen do? Does she stop scratching? She does not. She scratches all the harder. A lot of businessmen have been showing less sense than a hen since orders became scarce. They have laid off salesmen; they have stopped or reduced their advertising; they have simply resigned themselves to inaction and, of course, to pessimism. If a hen knows enough to scratch all the harder when the worms are scarce, surely businessmen ... ought to have gumption enough to scratch all the harder for business.”

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Author:B. C. Forbes

“Time mellows people as it mellows wine, as long as the grapes are good. You may set out to be a businesswoman or businessman but in the course of time end up caring for a dying parent, orphaned niece, or disabled brother. You may encounter illness yourself and end up being a writer, touching the heartstrings, not the purse strings of other people. That's why it's best to always be true to yourself and God and to be flexible within His will. He will use you.”

“A man should never neglect his family for business.”

“The American people have no idea they are paying the bill. They know that someone is stealing their hubcaps, but they think it is the greedy businessman who raises prices or the selfish laborer who demands higher wages or the unworthy farmer who demands too much for his crop or the wealthy foreigner who bids up our prices. They do not realize that these groups also are victimized by a monetary system which is constantly being eroded in value by and through the Federal Reserve System.”

“A good businessman must have nose for business the same way a journalist has nose for news. In places where people see a lot of obstacles, I see a lot of opportunities. A good businessman sees where others don’t see.”

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Author:Orji Uzor Kalu

“A good businessman sees where others don’t see. What I see, you may not see. You cannot see because that is the secret of the business… the entire world is a big market waiting for anybody who knows the rules of the game.”

Knows World May Bigs Games Waiting Secret Businessman Good Business Rules Of The Game

Author:Orji Uzor Kalu

“I used to be focused on being the dopest rapper in the game, and then once that became what I was, I wanted something different, and I wanted to become the best businessman in the game. I wanted to learn how to master the business like I mastered the rap.”

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Author:Snoop Dogg

“There's so much that I want to do. I feel like I'm the Magic Johnson of rap. You know, Magic was great on the basketball court, but he's bigger as a businessman.”

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Author:Snoop Dogg

“Our public schools need to be in the control of parents and the community, as opposed to businessmen who see the $23 billion budget as a means to giving no-bid contracts to their cronies.”

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Author:Charles Barron

“In order to change the direction of this country, we need to change presidents. Americans need a conservative businessman to get this economy moving again, not career politicians. That is why I am running. Next week, I will lay out my specific plan to put America back to work.”

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Author:Mitt Romney

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

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Book:Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen

Source: Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen

“I want TNA to grow as a company, it’s better for me as a performer and me as a businessman. But how can they grow if every chance they get they are constantly talking about up north and the WWE?”

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Author:Chris Jericho

“In business, as in politics, it is never easy to go against the beliefs and attitudes held by the majority. The businessman who moves counter to the tide of prevailing opinion must expect to be obstructed, derided and damned.”

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Author:J. Paul Getty

“And no again: My studio is not a first or any step toward becoming any type of businessman on my part.”

Firsts Steps Type Becoming Studios Businessman

Author:Billy Sheehan

“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.'”

Ifs Firsts Artist Businessman

Author:LeRoy Neiman

“A good chef has to be a manager, a businessman and a great cook. To marry all three together is sometimes difficult.”

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Author:Wolfgang Puck

“It's a bit disappointing when board members who don't know a thing about football are making decisions on your career. When you look at it you've got coaches, senior players and CEO's who wanted me but then it gets to a board meeting and you've got fat businessmen who are making the decision on your career. It was frustrating and it made me a bit angry.”

“The best athlete wants his opponent at his best. The best general enters the mind of his enemy. The best businessman serves the communal good. The best leader follows the will of the people. All of the embody the virtue of non-competition. Not that they don't love to compete, but they do it in the spirit of play. In this they are like children and in harmony with the Tao.”

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Author:Laozi

“But I felt like Pablo Escobar felt like he was an honorable businessman. And when he killed people, I think he felt he did it because they were honorable. That they were liars and were trying to cheat him. I don't think he had a lot of respect for the politicians in Columbia at the time, so he had quite a lot of fun killing them.”

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Author:Cliff Curtis

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

Facts Business Half Brother Statistics Savior Businessman Utility

Book:The Carnal Myth: A Search Into Classical Sensuality

Source: The Carnal Myth: A Search Into Classical Sensuality

“We are each other's seventh largest trading partner, we are the fifth largest investor there and likewise, we have a lot of exchanges between political leaders, businessmen, tourists and school children too.”

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Author:S. R. Nathan

“Do you know, Considering the market, there are more Poems produced than any other thing? No wonder poets sometimes have to seem So much more businesslike than businessmen. Their wares are so much harder to get rid of.”

Knows Sometimes Seems Wonder Poet Harder Do You Know Considering Businessman

Author:Robert Frost

“Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth. None of them along the line know what any of it is worth.”

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Author:Bob Dylan

“I never set out to be a businessman”

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Author:Richard Branson

“I am not primarily an entrepreneurial businessman. I'm primarily a playboy philosopher.”

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Author:Hugh Hefner

“The US economy today is in really bad shape. Our economic growth is minimal, our regulatory burden is horrific, taxes are high, businessmen are not investing in growth, and consumers and government are loaded up with debt.”

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Author:Yaron Brook

“A businessman cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the loss. If bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences; if he fails, he passes the loss on to you.”

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Author:Ayn Rand

“A BUSINESSMAN cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, He suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the loss. A bureaucrat, forces you to obey his decisions, whether you agree with him or not... If he makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences; If he fails, He passes the loss on to you, in the form of heavier taxes.”

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Author:Ayn Rand

“I just wanted to be a businessman, and to me, the best way to understand business was to be an accountant.”

Way Wanted Best Way Businessman Accountants

Author:Aubrey McClendon

“My mum is a bit unconventional; she's outdoorsy and has more of an emotional intelligence, whereas my dad is pragmatic; he's a businessman.”

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Author:Tamsin Egerton

“Businessmen... were not born chief executives. They were often people first.”

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Author:Richard Jefferson

“President Bush said it's now time for a change in Iraq and he wants them to have a Western-style democracy like ours. So right now in Iraq, the economy is collapsing, businessmen are corrupt, and Hussein wants his son to take over as president. Sounds like mission accomplished.”

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Author:Jay Leno

“I pick good women, but I haven't had any luck with my men.”

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Author:Elizabeth Arden

“Think of what big governments have gotten up to in this century : not one, but two world wars, the gulag, the holocaust, aerial bombing of civilian population centers, the Berlin Wall, nuclear explosions, the post office. A wicked individual might want these, but he wouldn't have the cash and connections to get them. A villainous corporation could afford them but has to market the products. The Vietnam draft would be a tough sell for even the most fiendish businessmen. "Get shot! Get killed! Get diseases from foreign women who despise you in their hearts!"”

“Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.”

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Author:Mario Puzo

“In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.”

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Author:Sinclair Lewis

“You may be a well-educated, clever and virtuous person, but those qualities will not necessarily make you a successful businessman. You must give your best to each and every task you take on, and reflect on your performance with an honest and unprejudiced eye.”

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Author:Konosuke Matsushita

“I want to be known as a great businessman.”

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Author:Edward Lampert

“My dad was a very conservative Republican businessman, so obviously I considered it a problem when I realized I was a lesbian.”

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Author:Catherine Opie

“Robert Torricelli, a powerful fund-raiser who helped raise more than $100 million for the Democratic party, took inappropriate gifts from a businessman, including an $8,000 gold Rolex watch, for which he was severely admonished by the Senate Ethics Committee in July. To recap: raising $100 million in contributions from gigantic corporations - ethical; taking a watch - unethical. That's the Senate Ethics Committee, an oxymoron since 1974.”

“Many marriages are simply working partnerships between businessmen and housekeepers.”

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Book:Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin

Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin

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