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Quotes About Businessmen

There was one occasion when I was very young - eight years or seven years old - that Jewish businessmen went through the forest, and they were assassinated. And that was for the first time I saw in our paper where there were assassinations in our place.
~ Shimon Peres
I'm excited about my own network, BounceTV. It's the first African-American-owned broadcast network. It's myself, my partner Rob Hardy, and some other African-American businessmen, including Andrew Young and Martin Luther King III.
~ Will Packer
The businessmen have corrupted liberty by trying to propose it as a material quality.
~ Philip Wylie
Trump made his fortune manipulating tax laws and stiffing small businessmen, creating a few well-paying jobs along the way. Vulnerable people looking to master 'the art of the deal' learned the hard way that Trump held all the cards.
~ Stephanie Coontz
In Africa, those who have money - businessmen and banks - do not believe in film.
~ Wole Soyinka
I'm from a family of bankers and businessmen, and here I am, the artist, the black sheep.
~ Matthew Quick
People don't know that there were very successful black businessmen in the years of apartheid.
~ Patrice Motsepe
Vikings were pretty brutal, but also very educated people. They were salesmen, businessmen who started raiding when business wasn't good. That's why they had such great boats.
~ Baltasar Kormakur
My father and grandfather were businessmen. The family business was Adelphi Paints in New Jersey. When the first energy crisis came in the early 1970s, the business suffered.
~ David Einhorn
Some town cynics dismissed it as a move designed to get him clemency in his sentencing. Still, Bob had his supporters, mostly the town businessmen, who seemed to honor each other. Because of their mutual admiration they felt they could do no wrong, and neither could their offspring. In this group, the feeling was strong that Bob Hansen was in jail because of Chief Wiseman's railroad. Things
~ Walter Gilmour
Businessmen they drink my wine, come and taste my herb.
~ Jimi Hendrix
Be realistic and truthful - and tell Hong Kong businessmen honestly that they should go for long-term investments since it is unlikely money can be made in the short haul.
~ Zhu Rongji
In the era of imperialism, businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talked the language of succcessful businessmen.
~ Hannah Arendt
I was an opponent of Saddam Hussein when the British and American governments and businessmen were selling him guns and gas.
~ George Galloway
Nothing short of a federal investigation can begin to disclose the abuses which have woven a fine web of mutually implicating relationships between businessmen and government officials.
~ Ralph Nader
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
We were supposed to be businessmen coming off the train after a long day in Manhattan, but Alf looked like he was ready to seize cocaine from a Colombian drug lord.
~ Jason Rekulak
The businessmen wondered if they could create such individuals not from the accidents of news events but from the deliberate manufactures of their own medium.
~ E.L. Doctorow
found that scientists think about problems in much the same way artists do. Scientists and artists proved less similar in personality than in cognition, but both groups were similarly different from businessmen.
~ Richard Rhodes
few of the fathers of physicists were businessmen.
~ Richard Rhodes
The truth is, Japan is headed for crisis. We are in the hands of greedy businessmen and weak politicians. Such people will see to it poverty grows every day.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Television represents what happens to a medium when the artists have no power and the businessmen are in full, unquestioned control.
~ Pauline Kael
In short, Republicans under Trump have finally destroyed the New Deal, turning the government over to a small cadre of wealthy businessmen, unhampered, to run the country as they see fit.
~ Heather Cox Richardson
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Acts slashes taxes on the very wealthy and kills regulations with the idea that rich businessmen will invest their money into the economy to support workers - the same idea that Republicans embraced in the 1920s.
~ Heather Cox Richardson