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“Profit is proof that the capitalist has given something to society that it cherishes more than the material wealth it has given to the businessman.”

Given Wealth Materials Profit Proof Cherish Capitalist Businessman Material Wealth

Author:Johan Norberg

“The customer is an object to be manipulated, not a concrete person whose aims the businessman is interested to satisfy.”

Persons Objects Aim Customers Concrete Businessman

Book:Escape from Freedom

Source: Escape from Freedom

“People in places many of us never heard of, whose names we can't pronounce or even spell, are speaking up for themselves. They speak in languages we once classified as exotic but whose mastery is now essential for our diplomats and businessmen. But what they say is very much the same the world over. They want a decent standard of living. They want human dignity and a voice in their own futures. They want their children to grow up strong and healthy and free.”

“I am just a businessman, giving the people what they want.”

People Want Giving Businessman

Author:Al Capone

“The businessman who is a novelist is able to drop in on literature and feel no suicidal loss of esteem if the lady is not at home, and he can spend his life preparing without fuss for the awful interview.”

Ifs Feels Writing Home Able Literature Loss Esteem Awful Novelists Interviews Preparing Businessman Suicidal

Book:The Living Novel

Source: The Living Novel

“The American businessmen, as a class, have demonstrated the greatest productive genius and the most spectacular achievements ever recorded in the economic history of mankind. What reward did they receive from our culture and its intellectuals? The position of a hated, persecuted minority. The position of a scapegoat for the evils of the bureaucrats.”

Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

“The men who made the Industrial Revolution are usually pictured as hardfaced businessmen with no other motive than self-interest. That is certainly wrong. For one thing, many of them were inventors who had come into business that way.”

Men Way Made Self Interest One Thing He Man Revolution Selfishness Motive Businessman Self Interest Inventor Industrial Revolution

Book:The Ascent of Man

Source: The Ascent of Man

“What need had the businessman to scribble or philosophize when he dominated the imagination of his time and the frantic materialism that was his principle of existence had become the haunting central figure in contemporary life?”

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Book:On Native Grounds: An Interpretation Of Modern American Prose Literature

Source: On Native Grounds: An Interpretation Of Modern American Prose Literature

“A businessman is someone who buys at ten and is happy to get out at twelve. The other kind of man buys at ten, sees it rise to eighteen and does nothing. He is waiting for it to rise to twenty. When it drops to two he waits for it to get back to ten.”

Men Kind Doe Two Waiting Ten Capitalism Twenties Get Back Twelve Businessman Eighteen

Book:A Bend in the River

Source: A Bend in the River

“One night in Tokyo we watched two Japanese businessmen saying good-night to each other after what had clearly been a long night of drinking, a major participant sport in Japan. These men were totally snockered, having reached the stage of inebriation wherein every air molecule that struck caused them to wobble slightly, but they still managed to behave more formally than Americans do at funerals.”

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Author:Dave Barry

“I could play it safe by recording songs that are familiar, but am I expanding myself as an artist by doing covers? It's a catch-22. It's called show business: The word 'business' is in it, and you've got to be a businessman. But then again, you have to be true to yourself as an artist.”

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Author:Donny Osmond

“I don't care to analyze acting. On the other hand there is a fascination because distributors are putting out British films. You get films here with great performances you'll never see again. Why compare. We should go after the businessmen.”

Should Hands Care Film Acting Performances Don't Care British Compare I Don't Care Businessman Fascination Distributors Great Performance British Film

Author:Tim Roth

“I think 'G.I. Joe' is a perfect example of how I'm the world's worst businessman. If I were smart, I'd be writing 'World War Z Part 12', but I have to go where the muse leads, and I've always been a huge 'G.I. Joe' fan. I always wanted to know more about these characters, these little plastic figures I played with as a kid.”

Ifs Thinking Knows World Writing Littles War Character Kids Wanted Perfect Fans Worst Figures Example Huge Smart War Of The Worlds Plastic Muse Businessman World War Z

Author:Max Brooks

“I have also just finished three weeks on a soap opera in England. The soap opera is a rather famous one called Crossroads. It was first on television 25 years ago, and it has recently been brought back. I play the part of a businessman called David Wheeler.”

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Author:Jeremy Bulloch

“What is qualified? What have I been qualified for in my life? I haven't been qualified to be a mayor. I'm not qualified to be a songwriter. I'm not qualified to be a TV producer. I'm not qualified to be a successful businessman. And so, I don't know what qualified means.”

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Author:Sonny Bono

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

Sometimes Teenager Distinction Pauses Businessman

Author:Ben Casnocha

“All businessmen are scum.”

Businessman Scum

Author:Frank Dobson

“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.”

Should Looks Letting Go Employee Businessman Shocked Westerners Look After Yourself

Author:Robert Fisk

“If we can put together a Mexican businessman and a U.S. businessman, they will find a way to do more business.”

Ifs Way Together Businessman Mexican

Author:Vicente Fox

“My father was so much more than an accomplished businessman.”

Father Accomplished Businessman

Author:Gordon Getty

“You see these dictators up on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. They're afraid of words and thought. ... They make frantic efforts to bar our thoughts and words. ... A state of society where men may not speak their mind - where children denounce their parents to the police - where a businessman or small shopkeeper ruins his competitor by telling tales about his private opinion. Such a state of society cannot long endure if it is continually in contact with the healthy outside world.”

“Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.”

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Author:Malcolm Forbes

“Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.”

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Author:Malcolm Forbes

“The Macau casinos have a wonderful business, it's taking in money from Chinese businessmen elsewhere who send it through junky companies to casinos to gamble. The growth continues and they have basically western managers and western accounting, so we trust the numbers a little bit more.”

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Author:James Chanos

“The problem with Mr. Obama is that you get more regulation and it's a disincentive for businessmen to hire people. You probably also get higher taxes, so in terms of the economy, he is very negative in my view.”

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Author:Marc Faber

“My dad was an entrepreneurial businessman, and maybe I got some of his ability.”

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Author:Thomas Jane

“If you are a businessman or a politician in Iran, you can get a visa as quickly as you ask for it.”

Ifs Asks Politician Iran Businessman Visa

Author:Abbas Kiarostami

“We need scientists to design new fuels. We need farmers to help grow them. We need engineers to invent new technologies. We need entrepreneurs to sell those technologies. We need workers to operate assembly lines that hum with high-tech, zero-carbon components. We need builders to hammer into place the foundations for a clean energy age. We need diplomats and businessmen and women, and Peace Corps volunteers to help developing nations skip past the dirty phase of development and transition to sustainable sources of energy. In other words, we need you.”

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