Quotes on Business Man

I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day to day affairs that they had no time for friend making.

The creative process requires more than reason. Most original thinking isn't even verbal. It requires 'a groping experimentation with ideas, governed by intuitive hunches and inspired by the unconscious.' The majority of business men are incapable of original thinking because they are unable to escape from the tyranny of reason. Their imaginations are blocked.

Business men are to be pitied who do not recognize the fact that the largest side of their secular business is benevolence. ... No man ever manages a legitimate business in this life without doing indirectly far more for other men than he is trying to do for himself.

The cynic says, "One man can't do anything". I say, "Only one man can do anything."

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

Reverence for life . . . does not allow the scholar to live for his science alone, even if he is very useful . . . the artist to exist only for his art, even if he gives inspiration to many. . . . It refuses to let the business man imagine that he fulfills all legitimate demands in the course of his business activities. It demands from all that they should sacrifice a portion of their own lives for others.

The majority of business men are not capable of an original thought, simply because they cannot escape the tyranny of reason.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! And powerful things at that, when mixed with definiteness of purpose, and burning desire, can be translated into riches. Use auto-suggestion, have faith, imagination and overcome fear and time is your opposite player as in checkerboard.

I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man!