Businessmen Quotes

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.
Malcolm Forbes

Politics, Business, Democracy

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

Old, Read, Anyone

The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers, but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and the people generally.
Carroll Quigley

Good, History, Advice

I am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a law suit.
Carter G. Woodson

Law, Afraid, Fact

Tell the trial lawyers to get out of your state and to quit costing businessmen and women.
Rick Perry

Women, Tell, State

Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.
Steve Allen

Government, Mafia, Improve

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.
Dick Gregory

Person, Through, Tell

Great businessmen are creators.
Eric Cantona

Great, Creators

People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people.
Calvin Klein

Design, Rather, Run

I own my own company, so I've never had businessmen telling me what to do or getting worried if something doesn't sell. I've always had my own access to the public, because I started off making my clothes for a little shop and so I've always had people buying them.
Vivienne Westwood

Off, Making, Getting

Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
Andrew Young

Nothing, Decide, Illegal

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.
Tim Roth

Great, Care, Why

There was one occasion when I was very young - eight years or seven years old - that Jewish businessmen went through the forest, and they were assassinated. And that was for the first time I saw in our paper where there were assassinations in our place.
Shimon Peres

Time, Through, Young

There are professional negotiators working for the writers and the actors, but basically you've got the writers and actors negotiating against businessmen. That's why you get rhetoric.
Dick Wolf

Why, Working, Against

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.
Wallace Shawn

Work, Else, Off

I prefer a three-piece suit myself. Very sixties rock and roll. But they're not too quirky. Businessmen could wear them.
Scott Weiland

Rock, Wear, Suit

My visit to the United States has also given me the opportunity to emphasize the objective of establishing close and intensive links between the Turkish and American peoples, scholars and businessmen.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Between, American, United

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

Learned, Free, Genius

We need to be clear when we venerate entrepreneurs what we are venerating.They are not moral leaders. If they were moral leaders, they wouldn't be great businessmen.
Malcolm Gladwell

Great, Moral, Leaders

German businessmen are overwhelmed by the high cost of doing business. Inflexible rules, enforced by a burgeoning bureaucracy, discourage entrepreneurship.
Suzanne Fields

Business, High, Rules

The different Ministries have to work more on the promotion of the country, to build Kosovo's public image. Concrete projects must be assembled, in order to activate our businessmen to have more contacts. We have to create a positive image about ourselves.
Ibrahim Rugova

Work, Positive, Different

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.
James Chanos

Trust, Money, Business

Chris Cutler was kind enough to offer his company as an umbrella, so now I can have all my back catalogue under one roof as it were, and it has the same feeling as with Daniel; this is a matter between friends rather than businessmen.
Fred Frith

Feeling, Friends, Enough

To the extent that '60s guys own things, yes... but I don't have the publishing, just like most '60s guys, and that was an error, you know... part ownership in publishing was the kind of era that started a little bit later, when real businessmen started to manage artists.
John Sebastian

Real, Started, Artists

Be realistic and truthful - and tell Hong Kong businessmen honestly that they should go for long-term investments since it is unlikely money can be made in the short haul.
Zhu Rongji

Money, Made, Short

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.
Sellapan Ramanathan

School, Children, Political

If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.
Irvin S. Cobb

Good, Sense, Writers

All businessmen are scum.
Frank Dobson

I don't expect to get a standing ovation from businessmen when I call for higher wages.
Peter Bofinger

Expect, Call, Higher

Businessmen... were not born chief executives. They were often people first.
Richard Jefferson

Often, Born, Chief

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