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. — Kim Dotcom
I am a businessman. I am anything I need to be at any time. — Frank Lucas
I am just a businessman, giving the people what they want. — Al Capone
The successful businessman must be able to foresee possibilities, to estimate with sagacity the outcome in the future. — Frank William Taussig
I am a businessman. This is what I do each and every day. I love it. I love coming to work. I never have a bad day. — Magic Johnson
Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. — Andy Warhol
From the very beginning I used sound business practices in everything I did. White businessman uses them to make money he's a genius. Black businessman uses them he's a crook. That's the way it is. — Don King
To be a successful businessman, you must have remarkable talents; and if you have such talents, why waste them on business? — Yisroel Salanter
Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight. — Henry Luce
As a business owner who is looking to market his or her company, you should be on the lookout for opportunities to get face time with movers and shakers in your network. — Lewis Howes
Short Business Man Quotes
A successful entrepreneur is one who is both successful in business and in life. — Pat Flynn
It is usually people in the money business, finance, and international trade that are really rich. — Robin Leach
You ought to dream. All our biggest businessmen have been dreamers. — Ernest Hemingway
Business today consists in persuading crowds. — Gerald Stanley Lee
You either make business your lifestyle, or business becomes your lifestyle. — Isaac Mashman
My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job. — Ted Turner
Businessmen go down with their businesses because they like the old way so well they cannot change. — Henry Ford
Being business minded requires you to always approach things with humility and respect. — Strive Masiyiwa
Business is a combination of war and sport. — Andre Maurois
Top 10 Business Man Quotes
Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity. — Karl Marx
A man should never neglect his family for business. — Walt Disney
As a goalkeeper you need to be good at organising the people in front of you and motivating them. You need to see what's going on and react to the threats. Just like a good manager in business. — Peter Shilton
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows. — Epictetus
I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create. — William Blake
O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out. — Abu Bakr
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. — Jules Renard
Leadership is not for the faint of heart — Bill Hybels
We do not say that a man who takes no interest in public affairs is a man who minds his own business. We say he has no business being here at all. — Pericles
Business Man Image Quotes
One great cause of failure of young men in business is lack of concentration. — Andrew Carnegie
Do not correct a fool or he will hate you. Correct a wise man and he will appreciate you.
Successful Business Man Quotes
The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues. — Marcus Aurelius
The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. — Bruce Lee
The man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed, you must have a larger ambition. — John D. Rockefeller
Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.
The man who keeps busy helping the man below him won't have time to envy the man above him. — Henrietta Mears
The mother is the one supreme asset of national life; she is more important by far than the successful statesman, or business man, or artist, or scientist. — Theodore Roosevelt
I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates. — John D. Rockefeller
The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute. The man who does not ask, is a fool for life.
First of all, a man, whether seeking achievement on the athletic field or in business, must want to win. He must feel that the thing he is doing is worthwhile; so worthwhile that he is willing to pay the price of success to attain distinction. — Branch Rickey
A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing. — Charles M. Schwab
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality. — Henry Ward Beecher
I saw that a humble man, with the blessing of the Lord, might live on a little; and that where the heart is set on greatness, success in business did not satisfy the craving, but that commonly with an increase of wealth, the desire of wealth increased. — John Woolman
Good Business Man Quotes
Equal interchange of goods and service between buyer and seller is the keynote of tomorrow's business world when the vision of the modern business man awakens him to the wisdom of writing that policy into his code of ethics. — Walter Russell
If economists were good at business, they would be rich men instead of advisers to rich men. — Kirk Kerkorian
If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act. — Lee Iacocca
Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.
To make a pleasant and friendly impression is not alone good manners, but equally good business. — Emily Post
Everybody knows in the business how I feel about country music. I'm an old traditionalist. Then they just call me an old man and stuck in my old ways, but with all the fans I've got out there, I can't be all that wrong. I do love traditional country music. I love the good stuff. — George Jones
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough. — Abraham Lincoln
A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything.
The good or ill of a man lies within his own will. — Epictetus
Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing. — Francis Bacon
We are sometimes so busy being good angels that we neglect to be good men and women. — Saint Francis de Sales
There is also a schedule to fashion - the deadline is always set. So maybe the fashion business is a good business for me in that way because I'm basically lazy, man. — Yohji Yamamoto
Positive Business Man Quotes
Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. — Walt Disney
It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him. — John Steinbeck
The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) was asked what type of earning was best, and he replied: " A man's work with his hands and every (lawful) business transaction." — Muhammad ibn Isa at-Tirmidhi
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise man grows it under his feet.
A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business. — Eric Hoffer
I don't feel like it's fair to the other players and I don't think it's the right way to do business to allow influence and position to dictate when you play a young man. — Mike Leach
The self-styled practical man of affairs who pooh-poohs philosophy as a lot of windy notions is himself a pragmatist or a positivist, and a bad one at that, since he has given no thought to his position. — Alan Watts
Wise Business Man Quotes
Do not give your attention to what others do or fail to do; give it to what you do or fail to do. — Buddha
The busy man is never wise and the wise man is never busy. — Lin Yutang
A company is known by the people it keeps. — Will Rogers
Words of comfort skillfully administered are the oldest therapy known to man.
For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions. — Lao Tzu
A wise man (or the first comedian in history) once said, If you wish to make God laugh, tell him your plans. This is why during praying, I occasionally slip in my business plans. If there were an internet of somekind in heaven, my story would've been forwarded to everyone even before lunch break. — Isman H. Suryaman
The wisdom of a learned man comet by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. Ecclesiasticus 38:25 — Bible
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
I mean the business is just so rough man, people always think the business is easy, and the business is very rough. This is probably the worst business that you can get in, as far as, business-wise. — Ginuwine
The business conduct of the disciples of wise men is truthful and faithful.... He does not allow himself to be made a surety or a guarantor and does not accept the power of attorney.... He lends money and is gracious. He shall not take away business from his fellow man. — Maimonides
Public business must always be done by somebody. It will be done by somebody or other. If wise man decline, others will not; if honest man refuse it, others will not. — John Adams
That distrust which intrudes so often on your mind is a mode of melancholy, which, if it be the business of a wise man to be happy, it is foolish to indulge; and if it be a duty to preserve our faculties entire for their proper use, it is criminal. Suspicion is very often an useless pain. — Samuel Johnson
Businessman Quotes
Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny. — Aristotle
A businessman cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the loss. If bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences; if he fails, he passes the loss on to you. — Ayn Rand
No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness. — Aristotle
Science is the engine of prosperity. But you'd never know it, listening to some of the politicians. They're lawyers and businessmen, not scientists. Lawyers and businessmen massage wealth; they don't create it. — Michio Kaku
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
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
I don't speak Japanese, I don't know anything about Japanese business or Japanese culture. Apart from sushi. But I can't exactly go up to him and say "Sushi!" out of the blue. It would be like going up to a top American businessman and saying, "T-bone steak! — Sophie Kinsella
As a businessman, I’ve learned that we can improve only on that which we measure. So set yourself a fun quota. I do! — Mo Gawdat
You may be a well-educated, clever and virtuous person, but those qualities will not necessarily make you a successful businessman. You must give your best to each and every task you take on, and reflect on your performance with an honest and unprejudiced eye. — Konosuke Matsushita
Business Person Quotes
I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it. — Bill Gates
If you're going to be thinking anyway, think big! — Donald Trump
Milton Berle is an inspiration to every young person that wants to get into show business. Hard work, perseverance, and discipline: all the things you need...when you have no talent. — Dean Martin
Every man dies. Not every man really lives.
The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow. — Ingvar Kamprad
This is a very exciting time in the world of information. It`s not just that the personal computer has come along as a great tool. The whole pace of business is moving faster. Globalization is forcing companies to do things in new ways. — Bill Gates
I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing. — Thomas A. Edison
Kindness is not a business. True kindness expects nothing in return and should never act with conditions.
The game of speculation is the most uniformly fascinating game in the world. But it is not a game for the stupid, the mentally lazy, the person of inferior emotional balance, or the get-rich-quick adventurer. They will die poor. — Jesse Lauriston Livermore
My dad is like a cactus - introverted and tough. I'm a people person, like my mom, but I got my competitiveness from my dad. He came to this country from Belarus with nothing and built a real business. He's my hero for giving me that need to run a business and for having enormous confidence in me. — Gary Vaynerchuk
I'm not a very gregarious person. I can't bear attention being called to me in a public place, which is ridiculous in a business that pays you to be noticed. — Gabriel Byrne
I’m not a busy person and I’m not busy because I refuse to schedule things. — Naval Ravikant
Successful Businessman Quotes
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
My father was a very successful businessman, but he was ruined in the stock market crash. A big stockbroker jumped out the window and fell on his pushcart. — Jackie Mason
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. — Ratan Tata
The new source of power is not money in the hands of a few, but information in the hands of many. — John Naisbitt
A sense of thrift is essential to success in business. The businessman must discipline himself to practice economy whenever possible, in his personal life as well as his business affairs. — J. Paul Getty
People who come up with "It may not work" or "What are we going to do if it fails?"
do not have the credentials to be businessmen. If there is only a 1 percent chance
of success, a true businessperson sees that 1 percent as the spark to light a fire. — Kim Woo-jung
I think, as everyone knows, Charles Kushner is one of the most successful businessmen in the United States and one of the great philanthropists of this century. — Jared Kushner
Businessmen must move with the times...the correlation between knowledge and business as the key to success is closer than ever. — Li Ka-shing
Today any successful and competent businessman will employ the latest and best-tested methods in production, distribution, and administration. Many are discovering that one of the greatest of all efficiency methods is prayer power. — Norman Vincent Peale
Sheer egoism... Writers share this characteristic with scientists, artists, politicians, lawyers, soldiers, successful businessmen - in short, with the whole top crust of humanity. — George Orwell
Businessmen Quotes
If a country lacks a reputation, businessmen will not invest until they see the fiscal adjustment. — Javier Milei
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
During the course of many years I have observed that a great number of doctors, lawyers, and important businessmen make a habit of visiting a chess club during the late afternoon or evening to relax and find relief from the preoccupations of their work. — Jose Raul Capablanca
After all, kidnappers are just businessmen trying to get the best price. — Chris Voss
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 Stevenson Forbes
I am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a lawsuit. It would do the cause much good. Let us banish fear. We have been in this mental state for three centuries. I am a radical. I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me. — Carter G. Woodson
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
With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves. — Milton Friedman
Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it. — Andrew Young
If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers. — Irvin S. Cobb
Successful Man Quotes
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man. — Lana Turner
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom. — George S. Patton
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few. The future depends on what we do in the present — Mahatma Gandhi
Man up and settle down. The sooner a man can gain control, identify his wife, and be faithful to her, the more successful, and happy you will be in life. Being with one woman in a faithful relationship will cause you to be the happiest version of yourself. — Tony Gaskins
Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself. — Viktor E. Frankl
A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success. — Otto von Bismarck
Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife. — Groucho Marx
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. — Albert Einstein
I know when my father [Donald Trump] puts his mind to something he's going to do a phenomenal job with it. He's a great businessman. He has an incredible track record. And I know he understands what this country needs and what it wants. — Donald Trump, Jr.
Surviving a failure gives you more self-confidence. Failures are great learning tools - but they must be kept to a minimum. — Jeffrey R. Immelt
A good chef has to be a manager, a businessman and a great cook. To marry all three together is sometimes difficult. — Wolfgang Puck
I'm sure there are writers who are great businessmen, but I
never met any. — Arthur Miller
Experience taught me to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. — Donald Trump
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. — Arnold Schwarzenegger
You're generally better off sticking with what you know. — Donald Trump
A businessman who reads Business Week is lost to fame. One who reads Proust is marked for greatness. — John Kenneth Galbraith
I want to be known as a great businessman. — Edward Lampert
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. — Snoop Dogg
I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle-man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. — Smedley Butler
I would love to see Mr. (Henry) Ford in there, really. I don't know who started the idea that a President must be a Politician instead of a Business man. A Politician can't run any other kind of business. So there is no reason why he can run the U.S. That's the biggest single business in the World. — Will Rogers
A busy, vibrant, goal-oriented woman is so much more attractive than a woman who waits around for a man to validate her existence. — Mandy Hale
A man too busy to take care of his health is like a farmer too lazy to plant his field. — Icelandic Proverbs
How many men ever went to a barbecue and would let one man take off the table what's intended for 9/10th of the people to eat? The only way you'll ever be able to feed the balance of the people is to make that man come back and bring back some of that grub that he ain't got no business with! — Huey Long
I would like to be the first man in the gym business to throw out my scale. If you don't like what you see in the mirror, what difference does it make what the scale says? — Vince Gironda
Advertising tries to stimulate our sensuous desires, converting luxuries into necessities, but it only intensifies man's inner misery. The business world is bent on creating hungers which its wares never satisfy, and thus it adds to the frustrations and broken minds of our times. — Fulton J. Sheen
I believe in the Golden Rule - The Man with the Gold... Rules. — Mr. T
A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools. — Proverbs
When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to make the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality. — George William Russell
If prisons, freight trains, swamps, and gators don't get ya to write songs, man, y'ain't got no business writin' songs. — Ronnie Van Zant
Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life in general, we are wishing every period of it at an end. The minor longs to be at age, then to be a man of business, then to make up an estate, then to arrive at honors, then to retire. — Joseph Addison
In all cities, the better classes - the business men - are the sources of corruption, but they are so rarely pursued and caught that we do not fully realize whence the trouble comes. — Lincoln Steffens
Do not think a man has done his full duty when he has performed the work assigned him. A man will never rise if he does only this. Promotion comes from exceptional work. — Andrew Carnegie
A man's judgment is best when he can forget himself and any reputation he may have acquired and can concentrate wholly on making the right decisions. — Raymond A. Spruance
The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. — E. M. Forster
Rather than ignore those who choose to publish their opinions without actually talking to me, I am happy to dispel any rumors or misconceptions and am quite proud to say that I am a very content gay man living my life to the fullest and feel most fortunate to be working with wonderful people in the business I love. — Neil Patrick Harris
The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life. — Charles R. Schwab
If Prometheus was worthy of the wrath of heaven for kindling the first fire upon earth, how ought all the gods honor the men who make it their professional business to put it out? — John Godfrey Saxe
I'm a fighter. I believe in the eye-for-an-eye business. I'm no cheek turner. I got no respect for a man who won't hit back. You kill my dog, you better hide your cat. — Muhammad Ali
A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man. — Samuel Johnson
Never murder a man when he's busy committing suicide. — Woodrow Wilson
Love is not a business. It's not a transaction. It's not an exchange or something you get for doing something it's not a trade. It's a gift! — Tony Robbins
From the very depth of my being, I challenge the right of any man or any group of men, in business or in government, to tell a fellow human being that he or she is expendable. — Jimmy Reid
Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it. — Al Lopez
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