Quotes on Businessman

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

One thing I always say is being a great chef today is not enough - you have to be a great businessman.

People rarely buy what they need. They buy what they want.

Saying no to loud people gives you the resources to say yes to important opportunities.

Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman.

There's no shortage of remarkable ideas, what's missing is the will to execute them.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

I was never, ever interested in becoming a businessman or an entrepreneur. If I was a businessman, or saw myself as a businessman, I would have never gone into the airline business.

Blacks own so little of the music business, it's pathetic. But I see that changing soon. Black artists, black businessmen and women will unite.

I don't want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together.

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 new source of power is not money in the hands of a few, but information in the hands of many.

I am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a law suit.

Every successful businessman will have experienced set-backs and failures - they're lying if they say they haven't. Virgin has had some tremendously successful businesses and some that have not quite worked out. Virgin Cola springs to mind - the product wasn't distinct enough from Coca-Cola.

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.

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

One thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill.

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Nothing could be more jolting and discordant with the vision of today's intellectuals than the fact that it was businessmen, devout religious leaders and Western imperialists who together destroyed slavery around the world. And if it doesn't fit their vision, it is the same to them as if it never happened.

It is time that all Americans realized that the place of labor is side by side with the businessman and with the farmer, and not one-degree lower.

And he absolutely had to find her at once to tell her that he adored her, but the large audience before him separated him from the door, and the notes reaching him through a succession of hands said that she was not available; that she was inaugurating a fire; that she had married an american businessman; that she had become a character in a novel; that she was dead.