Businessmen's Quotes

The businessmen have corrupted liberty by trying to propose it as a material quality. — Philip Wylie

With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves. — Milton Friedman

Rockefeller equated silence with strength: Weak men had loose tongues and blabbed to reporters, while prudent businessmen kept their own counsel. — Ron Chernow

Businessmen must move with the times ... the correlation between knowledge and business as the key to success is closer than ever. — Li Ka-shing

Prosperity is something the businessmen created for politicians to take credit for — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Many marriages are simply working partnerships between businessmen and housekeepers. — Mignon McLaughlin

The simple truth is that our businessmen do not want a government that will let business alone. They want a government they can use. — Albert J. Nock

Businessmen they drink my wine, come and taste my herb. — Jimi Hendrix

I've studied the lives of the 20th century's great businessmen and concluded self-confidence was instrumental in all their success. — Alex Spanos

In a global arena, what our businessmen need in order to be competitive is transparency and a level playing-field. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

What artists think about the world is often different from how we businessmen see it, and I find that an enriching experience. — Eli Broad

Businessmen all think of themselves as big or little professional wizards, but in practice they usually turn out to be hopeless incompetents. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

I'm sure there are writers who are great businessmen, but I
never met any. — Arthur Miller

Businessmen need to understand the challenges of society and contribute to solving them. — Victor Pinchuk

I'm from a family of bankers and businessmen, and here I am, the artist, the black sheep. — Matthew Quick

Businessmen should stand or fall on their own two feet. — Edwina Currie

Fortune is beastly - it is only suitable for cows and businessmen. — Irving Stone

American businessmen have taken advantage of the opportunities which existed in Europe and Europeans seem not to have been aware of. — Emilio Pucci

Nobles and peasants marry early. Businessmen tend to wait. — David Eddings

Musicians talk of nothing but money and jobs. Give me businessmen every time. They really are interested in music and art — Jean Sibelius

You ought to dream. All our biggest businessmen have been dreamers. — Ernest Hemingway,

Filipino businessmen must have the ability to compete freely in the global economy. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

The crowd had the plump, righteous, slightly constipated look that seems the exclusive province of businessmen who belong to the GOP. — Stephen King

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

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

I think there are many honest businessmen. — Ratan Tata

Businessmen go down with their businesses because they like the old way so well they cannot change. — Henry Ford

In Africa, those who have money - businessmen and banks - do not believe in film. — Wole Soyinka

If workers struggle for higher wages, this is hailed as "social gains", if businessmen struggle for higher profits, this is damned as "selfish greed". — Ayn Rand

747, its extravagant charter fee donated by Shi'a businessmen, — B. Hesse Pflingger

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

All businessmen are scum. — Frank Dobson

The pointless ferocities of intellectual life shock businessmen, who kill only to eat. — Mason Cooley

Unless paid, I never read books by or about businessmen or politicians, nor should anyone else. — Joe Queenan

There are always opportunities through which businessmen can profit handsomely if they will only recognize and seize them. — J. Paul Getty

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

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

The newspaper publisher who hangs around clubs or becomes a crony to sundry businessmen cannot run a good newspaper. — Dennis McDougal

The difficulty with businessmen entering politics, after they've had a successful business career, is that they want to start at the top. — Harry S. Truman

shady businessmen and corrupt government — John Osburg

Writers are remembered for their best work, politicians for their worst mistakes, and businessmen are almost never remembered. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Businessmen in society are not going to be the ones that promote anything outside of money. — M.I.A.

I have two sons. Good sons. They're both businessmen. — Gordon B. Hinckley

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

Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth.
None of them along the line know what any of it is worth. — Bob Dylan

When I hear artists or authors making fun of businessmen, I think of a regiment in which the band makes fun of the cooks. — H.L. Mencken

Honest businessmen should be protected from the unscrupulous consumer. — Lester Maddox

Great businessmen are creators. — Eric Cantona

businessmen learned quickly that working-class tourists had money to spend, too. What they lacked in sophistication they made up for in numbers. — Nelson Johnson

People don't know that there were very successful black businessmen in the years of apartheid. — Patrice Motsepe

I don't write about too many male businessmen, and I'm not apt to write about too many female businessmen. — John Updike

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

Among politicians and businessmen, *Pragmatism* is the current term for 'To hell with our children.' — Edward Abbey

Behind every corrupt politician are 10-20 corrupt businessmen. — Mo Ibrahim

When companies get together secretly to fix prices and attempt to eliminate competition, honest businessmen suffer. I think this is wrong. — Robert Kennedy

Artists are often excellent businessmen. They have to be. Otherwise they do not remain artists. — A. Y. Jackson

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

A capitalist economy hums when leading businessmen are bubbling with animal spirits and are prepared to sink their money into risky ventures. — Paul Johnson

If it is true that wars are won by believers, it is also true that peace treaties are sometimes signed by businessmen. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Some are just businessmen. — Chris Bohjalian

Hope is beyond price and the pharmaceutical companies, which are run by businessmen not altruists, price their products accordingly. — Henry Marsh

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

spend the day cleaning the houses of those businessmen, — Hazel Gaynor