Top 177 Businessman Quotes

First of all I would make about 80% of the people law-abiding citizens again. The policy which is carried out now makes every entrepreneur and businessman a thief against his own will.
Aleksandr Lebed
The suit does not represent the businessman anymore. Nor does the loud shirt represent the rock star. The same man can now wear both.
Donatella Versace
I want to be a successful businessman outside of football.
Mohamed Sanu
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
John Cleese
I’m an entrepreneur, a businessman. I’ve got a lot of money, and that doesn’t go very well with the whole ‘starving artist in a garret’ routine.
Felix Dennis
As a businessman, I saw club tracks as a new franchise that could be profitable for years to come. It was like being in McDonald’s and realizing that even though cheeseburgers and fries sold big, you could also make money serving up McRibs, which are always available for a limited time only.
R. Kelly
God keeps me grounded as well as my husband, Keith Douglas, who is such an inspiration to me. He’s an author, speaker, and businessman. He’s just a great husband and blessing.
Tasha Smith
The small businessman is smart; he realizes there’s no free lunch. On the other hand, he knows where to go to get a good inexpensive sandwich.
Adam Osborne
If a woman gets tough in negotiations, she’s difficult, whereas a man would be considered a brilliant businessman.
Tamara Mellon
Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a b

Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman.
George Soros
Though much about Donald Trump is chaotic and unpredictable, his overall agenda as a businessman and politician is clear and consistent: He wants to make himself more powerful, and he doesn’t care how he does it.
Tom Steyer
I think a businessman can be an artist just as much as a writer or a sculptor, so I’m real proud of what the company has become.
Phil Knight
I’m a businessman. Making records is my business. I have a big operation and I employ a lot of people.
Too Short
I don’t want to be a basketball player that’s a businessman. I want to be a businessman that’s a business.
Andre Iguodala
I’m a businessman, a company man, but I’m no ‘yes’ man.
Brian Ortega
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
Everyone seems to have this awareness of Charlie Chaplin because he was a really good businessman while Buster Keaton wasn’t.
French Stewart
Somebody like Bowie was so interesting because when you got him off stage, he was like a businessman. But on stage, he was just dazzling. It was like watching butterflies grow.
D. A. Pennebaker
I love being part of the Chinese scene as a businessman. That doesn’t mean that there aren’t short-term discomforts and adjustments.
Steve Wynn
What is qualified? What have I been qualified for in my life? I haven’t been qualified to be a mayor. I’m not qualified to be a songwriter. I’m not qualified to be a TV producer. I’m not qualified to be a successful businessman. And so, I don’t know what qualified means.
Sonny Bono
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
I am a businessman, not a politician, but I am also a proud American who would never do anything against my country’s national interest.
Erik Prince
As a Main Street businessman, I believe we need to reduce runaway federal spending and address our national debt and the MAP Act provides Congress with the tools to accomplish this goal.
Mike Braun
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
Taxpayers need a businessman who knows how to create jobs, cut costs and balance budgets.
Rick Scott
If studios don’t get their money back, we don’t have any movies. So it is important that films are successful, and I am fully supportive of that because I’m not just a director, I’m also not stupid. I’ve been in this business long enough and, to a certain extent, I’m a businessman; I know the importance of that.
Ridley Scott
I’m a businessman and actor and I still make appearances.
Carl Lewis
I’m not sure I really am an entrepreneur. I’m not much of a businessman. I know I’m not a marketing guy. I do have an entrepreneurial lineage, though.
John C. Bogle
I grew up the son of a businessman. And I didn’t get into music to be a businessman.
David Berman
My dad’s a businessman, and I grew up looking up to him, how he dressed to go to work and, whenever I went to his office, how he spoke to people.
Syd
And no again: My studio is not a first or any step toward becoming any type of businessman on my part.
Billy Sheehan
I admire Pat Shortt as a businessman. Such acumen is unusual for an entertainer. He did all his own deals. I learnt a lot from Pat when I was on the road with him for a year.
Deirdre O’Kane
Earlier, I thought it would be better for an actress to marry a businessman or a person from other profession, as it offers more stability. But then I realised that if I marry someone who doesn’t belong to the same industry , he wouldn’t understand my erratic schedules and also the norms of the glamour industry.
Divyanka Tripathi
My strengths as a businessman lie in the design and sale of women’s shoes, and I have never been comfortable with complicated or technical legal or business documents.
Steve Madden
If I really treated business like a businessman, I wouldn’t have done what I have done – opposing China. No businessman in their right mind would do this because you know that there will be repercussions.
Jimmy Lai
I am a businessman.
Ralph Norman
Putting aside the growing threat from Islamic jihadist terrorism, most of America’s problems are home grown. So when I say overthrow the establishment to fix the economy, and the brilliant businessman Wilbur Ross says we need radical new approaches to government, we’re talking two sides of the same coin.
Lawrence Kudlow
Fashion remains closest to my heart. I get genuinely excited by my collections – I never wanted to be a businessman.
John Rocha
One thing I always say is being a great chef today is not enough – you have to be a great businessman.
Wolfgang Puck
Honestly, for me, I’m a businessman but I’m a smart businessman.
Teddy Bridgewater
Was I a businessman to start with? I'm not sure. I mean

Was I a businessman to start with? I’m not sure. I mean, that comes slowly, when you start having the products out. But at the same time, I was very determined. I knew that I had to make it work. I had no choice.
Francois Nars
My dad, being a businessman, constantly talked to me about carrying myself in a certain way and treating people with respect. And I think that’s something that’s carried over throughout my life. It’s how I deal with certain situations.
Colin Kaepernick
I’m still a businessman. But what I do for my primary living and what is my life is music, and that will never change.
David Draiman
I’m a hard-nosed businessman, that if a company is paying its way, increasing profits for thirty-odd consecutive years, you don’t put it into receivership.
Sean Quinn
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
I’m sorry: I’m a businessman. I’m not a politician.
Doug Ford
I don’t think I’m a very good businessman. I act too much with my heart.
Pele
Everything I do in life is framed through the view of a businessman. That’s my instinct. If I go into a pharmacy to buy shaving cream, then I’m going to look for the best deal on shaving cream.
Donald Trump
I’m not a businessman, so I don’t know how to solve the problems of the recording industry.
Joshua Bell
At drama school, a casting director asked the class to walk round the room one at a time, and we had to imagine who they might be. The two before me were described as a doctor and a businessman, but when it came to me, they said homeless person. That was when I thought I’d better do something about my appearance!
Gwilym Lee
I think my dad is the only Arabic descendent who is an unsuccessful businessman.
Shakira
As a father, small businessman, Navy intelligence veteran, and co-founder of a public charter school, I’m ready to bring common-sense solutions to how we move America in a better direction.
Ryan Frazier
My father is a hell of an agent and hell of a businessman.
Tobias Harris
A businessman admits that he ‘let go’ an employee because he was a Sunni Muslim. You simply have to look after yourself, he explains. I am shocked, like a good Westerner should be.
Robert Fisk
I’m a successful businessman.
Robert Kardashian
I think any smart businessman would go where the money is bigger, but I also feel like you don’t forget your roots either.
Ginuwine
The businessman says ‘If I don’t do it first, somebody else will.’ The artist says ‘If I don’t do it first, nobody else will.’
LeRoy Neiman
A lot of businessman come into football find it difficult. They think because they have more money to throw at it, that will work. Of course money helps but it doesn’t guarantee success.
Steve Bruce
It doesn’t take anything to be a businessman.
John Paul Getty Jr.
At 25, I made many companies. I was thinking more like a businessman or entrepreneur than a CEO. I created many companies, small companies, medium companies. I tried to be involved in many kinds of activities, in finance, in real estate, in mining.
Carlos Slim
I’m not a good Samaritan, I’m a businessman… The goal is to read and react. If we sign an artist that has potential for a shelf life way out in the distance, then we’ll stay. But if not, then we won’t.
L.A. Reid
Any businessman will tell you that transportation is fundamental to success.
John Hickenlooper