“It is a matter of course and of absolute necessity to the conduct of business, that any discretionary businessman must be free to deal or not to deal in any given case; to limit or withhold the equipment under his control, without reservation. Business discretion and business strategy, in fact, has no other means by to work out its aims. So that, in effect, all business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage.” MeanMatterFactsUseLastsCoursesGivenDealsCasesEffectsLimitsAbsolutesAimStrategyWork OutAnalysisBusinessmanEquipmentDiscretionReservationsSabotageBusiness StrategySagacity Book:The Nature of Peace Source: The Nature of Peace
“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.” YearsRunningDealsFiveFourFive YearsFour YearsBusinessman Author:Mick Jagger
“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.” MenWellsFatherDealsCompanyDadAspectMy DadCommunicateBrilliantEngineersBusinessmanManufacturingElectricalKentucky Author:Laura Bell Bundy
“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.” IfsGivingMadeSaidDealsGive MeBusinessmanAmerican PoliticsSleevesVests Author:George P. Shultz
“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.” MenShowsGovernmentRunningAmericaSinDealsPrinciplesFailingFailurePrideFriendsOffersUltimateIntelligentMethodChaosIntelligenceCorporateComedianCollectivesAnarchyArrogantAbsurdityBusinessmanFrameworkAnarchistFormatPythonMontyConceptual Framework Author:Robert Hewison
“The artist is the lowest form of life on the rung of the ladder. The publishers are usually businessmen who deal with businessmen. They deal with promotional people. They deal with financial people. They deal with accountants. They deal with people who work on higher levels. They deal with tax people, but have absolutely no interest in artists, in individual artists, especially very young artists.” PeopleFormYoungArtistIndividualInterestLevelsDealsHigherTaxesFinancialBusinessmanLowestPublishersLaddersHigher LevelAccountantsYoung Artists Author:Jack Kirby