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“I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha. He and I never discussed his parentage, which was an open secret, but it fascinated me.”

Men School Young Mother Culture Father Language Secret College Mets Young Man Fascinated Graduates Businessman Tokyo Graduate School Geisha

Author:Arthur Golden

“Two hundred years ago the first liberal economist, Adam Smith, warned businessmen that they could absorb only a certain amount of rigidity. In the easy days after World War II... wage rises could be financed out of inflationary price increases.”

“Priests, kings, statesmen, soldiers, bankers and public functionaries of all sorts; policemen, jailers and hangmen; capitalists, usurers, businessmen and property-owners; lawyers, economists and politicians - all of them, down to the meanest grocer, repeat in chorus the words of Voltaire, that if there were no God it would be necessary to invent Him.”

“Businessmen are notable for a peculiarly stalwart character, which enables them to enjoy without loss of self-reliance the benefits of tariffs, franchises, and even outright government subsidies.”

Self Character Government Enjoy Loss Business Benefits Businessman Self Reliance Reliance Notable Subsidies Tariffs Stalwart

Book:the Uses of the Past

Source: the Uses of the Past

“A businessman needs three umbrellas - one to leave at the office, one to leave at home, and one to leave on the train.”

Needs Home Three Money Business Office Train Businessman Umbrella

Author:Paul Dickson

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

Love Is Businessman Hackers

Author:Kim Dotcom

“Behind every corrupt politician are 10-20 corrupt businessmen.”

Behinds Politician Businessman

Author:Mo Ibrahim

“For businessmen, the world is a bale of banknotes in circulation; for most young men, it is a woman; for some women, it is a man; and for others it may be a salon, a coterie, a part of town or a whole city.”

Men World May Whole Young Cities Towns Young Man Businessman Circulation Salons

Author:Honore de Balzac

“The real trouble with the doctor image in America is that it has been grayed by the image of the doctor-as-businessman, the doctor-as-bureaucrat, the doctor-as-medical-robot, and the doctor-as-terrified-victim-of-malpractice-suits.”

Has Beens Real America Trouble Doctors Victim Medical Suits Terrified Businessman Robots Bureaucrats Malpractice

Author:Shana Alexander

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

Happens Artist Television Mediums Businessman

Book:For Keeps

Source: For Keeps

“I went to Ethiopia, and it dawned on me that you can tell a starving, malnourished person because they've got a bloated belly and a bald head. And I realized that if you come through any American airport and see businessmen running through with bloated bellies and bald heads, that's malnutrition, too.”

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Author:Dick Gregory

“People's hands fascinate me. It's tempting to look at a businessman's left hand and see if there's an indentation from a missing wedding ring. Or maybe there's a tan line and the skin is pressed down where's he's worked a ring off his finger.”

People Ifs Looks Hands Left Lines Missing Skins Fingers Rings Businessman Tempting Left Hand Wedding Ring

Author:Benedict Cumberbatch

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

Government Usa Businessman Policemen

Author:Rand Paul

“Ephemeralization means the ability to do everything with nothing, or leverage, or doing more with less. So, as a businessman, I'm constantly ephemeralizing, figuring out how I can do more and more for less and less.”

Mean I Can Can Do Ability Businessman

Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“I'm not the businessman. I don't deal with the business at all. Not anymore. Occasionally, every four years or five years, they tell me I've run out of money, I have to go and make some more.”

Years Running Deals Five Four Five Years Four Years Businessman

Author:Mick Jagger

“" many seemingly independent businessmen or craftsman are more or less well paid retainers of larger corporations, such as the cobbler, operating a United States shoe machine or an automobile dealer holding a license of the General Motors Corporation."”

Wells States United United States Machines Paid Independent Shoes Corporations Businessman License Motor Automobile Dealer Craftsman General Motors Cobblers Retainers

Author:Paul A. Baran

“Indeed, the "whole bourgeoisie" on whose behalf the government was acting as its "committee" was a composite of a vast multitude of businessmen appearing as a conglomeration of many different and divergent groups and interests.”

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Book:Political Econ of Growth

Source: Political Econ of Growth

“My father was funnier than me. My father was Richard Pryor-funny. I'm just a better businessman.”

Father Businessman

Author:Tracy Morgan

“My dad was a businessman, and he would say, 'Work for free at the best company. Don't get paid a lot of money to work with the worst people.' And that's exactly how I see my career.”

People Company Careers Worst Dad Paid My Dad Lots Of Money Businessman Best Company

Author:Topher Grace

“The actor's role in the community is quite unlike anyone else's. Businessmen, for example, don't take their clothes off or cry in front of strangers in the course of their work. Actors do.”

Courses Actors Community Roles Fronts Cry Example Clothes Stranger Businessman

Author:Wallace Shawn

“The book 'A Reliable Wife' is a slice of American history. It takes a part of American history and tells a story about the purchase of a wife by a Wisconsin businessman. The research of that would have been really interesting.”

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Author:Patti LuPone

“I came from an intellectual family. Most were doctors, preachers, teachers, businessmen. My grandfather was a small businessman. His father was an abolitionist doctor, and his father was an immigrant from Germany.”

Father Teacher Intellectual Doctors Germany Immigrants Preacher Grandfather Businessman Small Business My Grandfather Abolitionist

Author:Pete Seeger

“The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.”

Artist Businessman

Book:Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt

Source: Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt

“My father has a manufacturing company in Kentucky and he's an electrical engineer. A brilliant man. A brilliant businessman. So he understands the business aspects of my business very well. My dad and I always communicate when I have to negotiate a deal.”

Men Wells Father Deals Company Dad Aspect My Dad Communicate Brilliant Engineers Businessman Manufacturing Electrical Kentucky

Author:Laura Bell Bundy

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

Father Honesty Discussion Businessman Dishonesty

Author:John Cullum

“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.”

Matter Care Kids Stuff Voice Missing Dad Cracks Businessman Recitals Dad Love He Doesn't Care

Author:Peter DeLuise

“We are quite convinced that if he were alive today, as an astute businessman looking out to the future, he would be moving out of fossil fuels and investing in clean, renewable energy.”

Ifs Would Be Today Moving Energy Business Alive Clean Climate Investing Convinced Fuel Businessman Fossils Fossil Fuel Live For Today Renewable Energy Moving Out Astute

Author:Stephen Heintz

“In a global arena, what our businessmen need in order to be competitive is transparency and a level playing-field.”

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Author:Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

“I was an opponent of Saddam Hussein when the British and American governments and businessmen were selling him guns and gas.”

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Author:George Galloway

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

Conservative Businessman

Author:Donny Deutsch

“If you owe fifty dollars you're a piker; if you owe fifty thousand dollars you're a businessman; if you owe fifty million dollars you're a tycoon; if you owe fifty billion dollars you're the government.”

Ifs Government Millions Thousand Dollars Billions Fifty Businessman Million Dollars Tycoons

Author:Sam Levenson

“If somebody had made that [deal] to me when I was a businessman, I would have said he proposed to give me the sleeves from his vest.”

Ifs Giving Made Said Deals Give Me Businessman American Politics Sleeves Vests

Author:George P. Shultz

“I have nothing bad to say about Hulk Hogan. In fact, compared to what I have seen in the press and all the high jinks of his life, I didn't see any of that coming, man. He was just a businessman who worked out.”

Men Facts Presses Businessman

Author:Kurt Fuller

“I think great businessmen are more likely made than born. I don't know if it's from your upbringing, your parental background, the struggles you go through. In my own particular situation, I left school at 15 and I was struggling to survive in the jungle and that was a great education. So I think just getting out there, hands on, learning to survive teaches you a lot.”

“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.”

Father Lost Successful Library Incredibles London Unusual Businessman Immediate Family

Author:Anthony Horowitz

“We're not forcing people... you can support and be a supporter, but if you go beyond that and become a member, [and] if you're a businessman, your business will multiply... Everything you touch will multiply. I've always said that a wise businessperson will support the ANC... because supporting the ANC means you're investing very well in your business.”

People Ifs Wells Mean Said Support Wise Members Investing Businessman Supporter

Author:Jacob Zuma

“One day, a musician asked me what I did. When I told him I was to be a businessman, he laughed and said, You are not a businessman. Sometimes all it takes is one person to put an important thought in your head, and he did.”

Persons Said Important Sometimes One Day Musician Laughed Businessman Thoughts In Your Head

Author:Alexander Hanson

“I don't mind being identified as any character as long as I'm doing a good job as an actor. I have done all kinds of roles - from an editor, judge, police officer, murderer to a corrupt businessman.”

Mind Kind Long Done Character Jobs Actors Roles Judging Police All Kinds Editors Officers Businessman Murderer Good Job Police Officer

Author:Boman Irani

“I dont usually make political comments, because I am a businessman, not a politician.”

Political Politician Comment Businessman

Author:John Gokongwei

“Fortune is beastly - it is only suitable for cows and businessmen.”

Fortune Cows Businessman Suitable Beastly

Author:Irving Stone

“Science is the engine of prosperity. But you'd never know it, listening to some of the politicians. They're lawyers and businessmen, not scientists. Lawyers and businessmen massage wealth; they don't create it.”

Knows Wealth Listening Politician Scientist Prosperity Lawyer Engines Businessman Massage

Author:Michio Kaku

“Everyone asks for freedom for himself, The man free love, the businessman free trade, The writer and talker free speech and free press.”

Men Asks Freedom He Man Speech Trade Presses Free Speech Businessman Free Trade Freedom Of The Press Talkers Free Press Free Love

Book:A Further Range

Source: A Further Range

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

Intellectual Shock Businessman Pointless Intellectual Life Ferocity

Author:Mason Cooley

“[O]ur statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking.”

Thinking Way Science Fiction Businessman Way Of Thinking Statesmen Everyman Inevitable Change

Author:Isaac Asimov

“If by day art is in the service of business, the evenings are devoted to the businessman's enjoyment of it. That is asking a lot of art, but art and the businessman make it work.”

Ifs Art Business Art Is Asking Evening Enjoyment Devoted Businessman

Book:Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

“The philosophy of being able as a woman to decide what you want and being unashamed about making it happen was new. Most successful businessmen are in that role. 'No' is never perceived as the end of the line. 'No' just means picking a new avenue.”

Want Mean Ends Philosophy Happens Able Lines Roles Successful What You Want Businessman Avenues Successful Business Successful Businessman

Author:Sharon Stone

“Looking at these issues as a businessman, I believe that investing in the world's poorest people is the smartest way that our government spends money.”

People World Way Believe Government I Believe Poverty Issues Investing Businessman Poorest

Author:Bill Gates

“One can't imagine a Hollywood film whose entire purpose was to ridicule, say, homosexual activists, feminists, animal rights crusaders, or environmentalists. That would be blasphemy. Hollywood understands that religious people, particularly Christians, are the last group in America besides businessmen who may be defamed with impunity.”

Source: The Seductive Image: Cinema and the Christian Faith

“Many businessmen fail to understand Python principles--the ultimate absurdity was an offer from America to buy the 'format' of the Python shows, that is, Monty Python without the Pythons--corporate methods do not have the conceptual framework to deal with an anarchist collective, run by intelligent and arrogant comedians who have proved that their method works.”

“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.”

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Author:Mark McKinnon

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