Businessman Quotes

But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance.
William Julius Wilson

Leadership, Best, Character

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
Sigmund Freud

Happiness, Alone, Wisdom

A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Forever, Occupation

My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Dreams, Great, Successful

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
Lord Acton

Money, Beautiful, Artist

A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.
Paul Valery

Dancer, Hybrid, Calculator

I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't.
Bruce Jenner

Life, Work, Hard

Every time you cut programs, you take away a person who has a vested interest in high taxes and you put him on the tax rolls and make him a taxpayer. A farmer on subsidies is part welfare bum, whereas a free-market farmer is a small businessman with a gun.
Grover Norquist

Time, Person, Him

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
John Cleese

Find, Rather, Easy

I was forced to be an artist and a CEO from the beginning, so I was forced to be like a businessman because when I was trying to get a record deal, it was so hard to get a record deal on my own that it was either give up or create my own company.
Jay-Z

Hard, Give, Trying

The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better.
Lee Iacocca

Good, Successful, Long

The first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman.
LeBron James

Time, Court, Nba

The moment is ripe for an experienced businessman to talk practical, prudent economics to the electorate - which is why Mitt Romney's political fortunes are steadily being resurrected from the grave.
Camille Paglia

Political, Why, Moment

We as voters, have long hoped that we would get a businessman instead of a politician in order to help fix America's problems. Well, I am that businessman.
Herman Cain

Help, Long, America

I honestly believe that there's an element in this country, in our politics, that does not want to see a businessman succeed at getting the nomination for the Republican party, and does not want me to succeed at becoming President of the United States of America.
Herman Cain

Politics, Country, America

When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman - like my father, or like me?
Glenn Beck

Successful, Father, Small

I wanted to do two things when I was growing up, about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA, and I wanted to be a businessman after my basketball career was over, and that is what I am doing now.
Magic Johnson

Age, Career, Basketball

I'm not a TV guy. I'm a restaurant chef and a businessman.
Emeril Lagasse

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.
Snoop Dogg

Best, Business, Game

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.
Snoop Dogg

Great, Basketball, Magic

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.
Jim DeMint

Person, Terrible, Worrying

I'm not a businessman.
James Dyson

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!'
David Guetta

Education, Career, Son

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.
Donny Osmond

Business, Yourself, True

My father, Abe, was a small businessman. For 32 years, he ran an exterminating company. That may explain why our family always associated the smell of roach spray with love.
Charles Schumer

Love, Family, Father

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.
Anthony Horowitz

Family, Money, Successful

Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman.
George Soros

I'm a businessman and actor and I still make appearances.
Carl Lewis

Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman.
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

I am a businessman. This is what I do each and every day. I love it. I love coming to work. I never have a bad day.
Magic Johnson

Love, Work, Bad

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