I’m not a young kid struggling to get to the top. I’ve been to the top. I gotta look out for my best interests as a businessman in this fight game. At the end of the day, it is a business. I’ve got children to take care of; I’ve got bills to pay.
I was a fan first; then I became a wrestler, then a promoter, then a businessman and everything that goes with it – marketing, merchandise, licensing, legal, everything. But I’ve always enjoyed it.
I am one of those artists who knows where their money is. I pay my bills; I take care of my mama. I handle my business. I am a businessman. I go to meetings and take care of things, so it’s a lot more than just partying and turning up.
When you think of Mitch Leigh as a businessman, remember he’s also a composer. And when you think of Mitch Leigh as a composer, remember he’s also a businessman.
I respect Georges St. Pierre as a businessman and an athlete. I don’t have anything against him personally. But he’s not the kind of fighter I like watching.
I’m proud of the fact that besides being known as a successful former football player, I’ve also worked hard to establish myself as a successful businessman, network broadcaster, sports & entertainment executive and philanthropist.
I am not a politician. I’m an American businessman and entrepreneur that have built two businesses, and I try to play it straight with people.
Trump is a different politician. He was a different businessman. His campaign was different. What you saw in his campaign is what you’re going to see in his presidency.
I like to read first thing in the morning. I’m addicted to the Kindle. I read a lot of business books, because I feel like I should figure out how to be a real businessman before someone figures out that I’m not one. I really enjoy reading classics as well, which I try to work in once every two months.
I feel that one thing that a businessman can learn is do not follow a path that has already been successful. You will never be a path-breaker then.
I will certainly not join politics. I would like to be remembered as a clean businessman who has not partaken in any twists and turns beneath the surface, and one who has been reasonably successful.
I’m a very conservative businessman. I don’t work on credit. My father was the guy who taught me how to think straight, not to delude myself and think I was larger than I was.
I don’t really think of myself as a businessman at all. That’s why I have the ‘chief creative officer’ role.
I’ll fight anyone I can beat. I’m a businessman first and a boxer second. I’m looking for the readies. The aim is to win at all costs.
Mitt Romney is a businessman, a turnaround artist, a CEO. That is who he is. The former governor has experience in the public and private sector.
I’m not a TV guy. I’m a restaurant chef and a businessman.
I am not a businessman, I am an artist.
I’m a good businessman. I pay my bills. Growing up in a situation where everything counted helps.
I am a businessman at the end of the day. I have grown up with Excel sheets. I start out writing my novel with spreadsheets and the milestones in each chapter highlighted.
I’m a businessman. I’m a former legislator, and I’m an executive. And I’ve been very effective in each one of those positions.
I’m a freestyle creative entrepreneur. Not a businessman. I like to create ventures in which creativity stands at the centre.
I was a businessman for a long time before I was a celebrity.
One should not treat investors or a person who has set up an industry and is a successful businessman as criminals in this country. I am fully aware that everybody has a right to succeed, and success should be with ethics.
Leaving Impact was a very difficult decision, as I had six months left on a very lucrative and talent-friendly contract. Anthem lived up to that contract and always treated me with the utmost respect as a businessman and a person.
The underwater businessman philosopher Andrew Ryan was BioShock’s unforgettable villain.
I’d been an entrepreneur, a very focused businessman, spokesman, and ran multiple companies based around Strikeforce. When it changed hands, my whole life stopped.
I wouldn’t say I am a businessman.
Dad loves my stuff. No matter how many times my voice cracks or I miss a tap, he doesn’t care. He’s like some businessman making it to his kid’s recital.
Whenever a Gujarati or Sikh businessman comes to a Republican event, it begins with an appeal to Jesus Christ. While the Democrats are really good at making the outsider feel at home, the Republicans make little or no effort.
There’s been a realization in college athletics that an athletic director really is a businessman.
I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha. He and I never discussed his parentage, which was an open secret, but it fascinated me.
As a businessman, if you ask me what I’m proud of, I’m proud of the fact that I made $250 billion under my watch as CEO.
I thought Steve Jobs was amazing. He was such a great businessman. Someone that has just been really continually successful with their brand and hasn’t gone away, Madonna is incredible. We’ve all kind of listened to her for years and seen her grow up and change, and she’s never strayed away from who she is.
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.
My father is a businessman, and my mother is a schoolteacher.
A good businessman never makes a contract unless he’s sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.
I’m not some tycoon and I don’t consider myself a businessman.
I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I’d be a lousy businessman, and if I didn’t give acting a try I’d regret it for the rest of my life.
Looking back, when I was fourteen, I aspired to… be the best believer, husband, father, businessman, and man of integrity that I can be.
Every businessman, or every person who has a passion for his work, is torn for the time spent at work and the time spent with your family.
My father – a Lebanese-origin small businessman – had a stroke in 1997 and couldn’t work anymore. I paused my career and made sure he was taken care of by overseeing the sale of his businesses, but after that, I was able to dedicate myself to politics. It’s what I had always wanted.
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.
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.
The hard truth is that Trump was not exceptional. He was just another amoral Western businessman, one of many whom the ex-KGB elite have promoted and sponsored around the world, with the hope that they might eventually be of some political or commercial use.
Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman.
Standing up for yourself. That’s the thing martial artists aren’t used to. You’ve got to really stick up for yourself and be a tough businessman when it’s time for negotiations.
After a while, you want to sell a lot of records, win awards and touch as many people as you can, but you have to secure the foundation with your family. I’m a family man, but I’m a businessman, too.
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.
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.
I’m a daddy and I’m a businessman also.
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.
A good chef has to be a manager, a businessman and a great cook. To marry all three together is sometimes difficult.
What’s successful is when you are good at what you aim to do. And I don’t think that Nas has aimed to do anything that he hasn’t done. So he is a good businessman.
As a businessman, I know that businesses need certainty.
My grandfather was a Methodist preacher, and my father was an unsuccessful businessman. We didn’t have status or wealth.
I am a better journalist than I am a businessman.
I’m not a public official. I’m a businessman, I’m a builder, I’m a planner.
My mother, Nancy Dickerson, was a reporter for CBS and NBC and the first female star of television news; my father, Wyatt Dickerson, was a successful businessman. Their parties, from the ’60s to the ’80s, attracted cabinet officials, movie stars, and presidents.
