Top 177 Businessman Quotes

Business is a useful tool in politics, but it’s not enough. You need much more than to be a good businessman, to be a good politician.

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.

As a scientist and successful businessman, I understand that no one has a monopoly on good ideas.

I think Mr. Trump is a pragmatic man; he is a businessman.

My father was a businessman, but my mother was an intellectual. She cared about culture, politics, and philosophy, so I became interested in the protest aspect of Latin American art.

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

My head’s not in the clouds, but I think I’ve gotten too much credit for being an astute businessman.

I’m a businessman, and I think there’s nothing wrong with being a businessman provided you have the right headspace and do good things with the money you make.

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.

My brother, a businessman, is the main cook in his home and my sister teaches cookery. Good food and good music were the mainstays of my childhood.

If we can put together a Mexican businessman and a U.S. businessman, they will find a way to do more business.

Why is it that if you take advantage of a corporate tax break you’re a smart businessman, but if you take advantage of something so you don’t go hungry, you’re a moocher?

I was embarrassed when a businessman friend asked, ‘What’s the yearly budget of your talk show? What’s the per-episode budget?’ And I looked at him with these blank, typical-model eyes and said, ‘I don’t know.’ I call myself a businesswoman, and I don’t know that?

Romney was an excellent businessman with a strong record as a public servant – whereas Trump inherited wealth, went bankrupt more than once, created nothing of value, and had no governing record at all.

I’m not a businessman. I could pack it in, but I like work. I don’t want to sound like Catherine Cookson, but I’ve worked since I was eight, with a paper round and in a fruit and veg shop.

My father was a rags-to-riches businessman who came over in the Sixties with no money. On my mother’s side, I am the grandson of a High Court judge and celebrated intelligence officer, so it’s quite an unusual combination.

I’m a yogi, not a businessman.

If I was a businessman, I could have made a huge amount of money. But none of that really crossed my mind while I was young and traveling.

Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor’s tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble.

My great-grandfather was a kola nut trader and the richest man in West Africa at the time of his death. My father was a businessman and politician. I was actually raised by my grandfather.

Now, I’ve never hosted a reality TV show, but I know the true mark of a successful businessman is not the number of times you say, ‘You’re fired.’ It’s the number times you say, ‘You’re hired.’

I will never see myself as a businessman. I’m a designer. I have to be true to what I believe.

For a businessman like me, smartphones are a lifeline. I use the device to watch promos of my films, songs, and videos. There are days when I end up spending as much as five hours on the phone.

I just wanted to be a businessman, and to me, the best way to understand business was to be an accountant.

There’s not a single day when I walk the streets of New York City when someone doesn’t come up to me to say: ‘Please, please, ask your dad to run for president.’ We really need a businessman as leader of our country, not a politician.

Oh, I was never a businessman. I was a visionary, a dreamer.

As a president, we need a businessman who understands that business is not usual – someone who’s not going to put up with business as usual in Washington, D.C. Having a businessman who’s not going to put up with business as usual in Washington, D.C., is exactly what we need.

I wanted to prove that a son of a politician can be a successful businessman.

There’s a lot of good, bipartisan legislation that passes in committee and then gets bottled up. As a businessman, it surprised me.

I’m a businessman as well as an entertainer. The reason why is because I want to own whatever I’m doing. I don’t want to work for other people forever.

As an artist, you want to make good stories and create good art; as a businessman, you want to make money and make sure the investors are happy. The two will always clash, unfortunately.

No one should walk into a party and have a stamp that says ‘mayor’ or ‘businessman’ on their head. Everyone is just there to have a good time.

My dad was a very conservative Republican businessman, so obviously I considered it a problem when I realized I was a lesbian.

Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman’s idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman’s idea of the real.

I’m simply a businessman who has seen his share of failures and successes.

I always admired Dana White as a great businessman that always believed in MMA and helped our sport to grow around the world.

He’s a family man and a businessman. He spent his career building successful companies. Then, he saved the 2002 Olympics and brought pride to our nation. As governor, he balanced the budget, cut taxes, and created jobs. The president America needs is Mitt Romney!

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.

Germany’s Angela Merkel exudes an atmosphere of elderly exhaustion and pooped-out pessimism. Britain’s David Cameron, though by nature exuberant, feels he has to look and sound glum. And France’s leader, Francois Hollande, seems determined to drive every successful businessman out of the country.

As a businessman, Sunil Shetty is dumb. His image as a ‘businessman’ is what his partners should have. They deserve all the credit.

I am a fantastic football manager, not a hard-headed businessman.

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.

I’m a businessman who puts up his own money, so I don’t have time to hear about emotion. I gotta get right to the point. I’m going to tell you the truth, I’m going to address the elephant in the room, and we’ll all move forward.

Until Donald Trump got to where he was, they said you’ll never see a rich businessman who’s never been in politics be president. I clearly was wrong about that.

I guess because we’re essentially a two-man band, we’re attracting Wham’s crowd. But Wham! are more of a businessman’s band.

I understand the appeal of a businessman president. But Trump’s business plan is a disaster in the making.

My new play ‘Chinglish,’ which will go to Broadway, is about a white American businessman who goes to a provincial capital in China, hoping to make a deal there. It’s bilingual. And it’s about trying to communicate across language and cultural barriers.

As a businessman, you need economic certainty. On the tax policies. You need it on your regulatory policies.

My mum is a bit unconventional; she’s outdoorsy and has more of an emotional intelligence, whereas my dad is pragmatic; he’s a businessman.

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.

I’m a businessman. I bring my bat and glove and attache case to the office and go to work. I don’t give a damn if the other workers at the office like me or not.

I’m the same businessman Donald Trump is.

I’m not a businessman.

Kennedy said that if we had nuclear war we’d kill 300 million people in the first hour. McNamara, who is a good businessman and likes to save, says it would be only 200 million.

Both my parents are well educated; my father worked for the CBI before becoming a businessman, and my mother was a civil surgeon. But I did not want to be a doctor.

It turns out the businessman knows more about how the economy really works than the chattering class. What a shock.

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