Famous quotes by Businessman

"Appreciate the power of rumor, often malicious, no matter how preposterous, within the local populations you are seeking to help"

Alvin Adams, Businessman

"We really believe that Walt Disney is a very able company with great depth and a great set of franchises"

Robert Iger, Businessman

"Sometimes I feel like I'm a contestant in a reality show that probably would be called The Apprentice, Survivor, Millionaire"

Robert Iger, Businessman

"It's in our best interest to put some of the old rules aside and create new ones, and follow the consumer - what the consumer wants and where the consumer wants to go"

Robert Iger, Businessman

"Are there challenges? Absolutely. But in aggregate, this is a very strong and valuable company"

Robert Iger, Businessman

"It's a growing trend. Viewers are our customers, but so are advertisers. And advertisers want different ways to reach our viewers"

Jeff Zucker, Businessman

"A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have, so that they consistently do better work than they thought they could"

Charles Erwin Wilson, Businessman

"We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children"

John Sculley, Businessman

"The prisoners eyed the clothes some time, and laughed a good deal among themselves before they put them on"

Lewis Tappan, Businessman

"You can no longer buy commodities at Merrill Lynch. My guess is many analysts and even executives are too young to know how profitable a hot commodities market can be. They will soon"

Jim Rogers, Businessman

"I was on the abutment"

Abraham Zapruder, Businessman

"Look at all the billionaires. If I know 15 billionaires, I know 13 unhappy people"

Russell Simmons, Businessman

"I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens"

Russell Simmons, Businessman

"It isn't as important to buy as cheap as possible, as it is to buy at the right time"

Jesse Livermore, Businessman

"Baseball is all about pitching, and we know we have to improve our pitching"

Tom Hicks, Businessman

"Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience"

Michael Eisner, Businessman

"It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky, it happens once in a lifetime"

Michael Eisner, Businessman

"This office is smaller than the last one I had. I'm not trying to impress people. I want to be close to them"

Steve Wynn, Businessman

"The most impressive person I've ever met? Elaine Wynn is no slouch. She's a much better person than me. But I've got her. Finders keepers, losers weepers. And it's been forty-seven years"

Steve Wynn, Businessman

"What is the biggest public forum in the United States? We were told it's the Super Bowl. The ad shows kids working at blue-collar jobs, and the final statement is just written text: Who's going to pay for the trillion dollar deficit?"

Joan Blades, Businessman

"Touch screen voting is a fine thing so long as they have a voter-verified paper trail"

Joan Blades, Businessman

"MoveOn is not a one-way broadcast media. The Internet, when used best, is a two-way media. We have a forum in which people can post comments and those comments can be rated. We get a sense of what people feel most passionately about"

Joan Blades, Businessman

"Most families need both parents to work. Moms need to be able to work and earn fair pay and have the flexibility in their jobs to also be primary caretakers"

Joan Blades, Businessman

"No one today knows what is indecent"

Jack Valenti, Businessman

"For years I thought what was good for our country was good for General Motors and vice versa. The difference did not exist. Our company is too big. It goes with the welfare of the country"

Charles Erwin Wilson, Businessman

"We have three billion people, half the world's population today, living on less than two dollars a day"

James Wolfensohn, Businessman

"So the first thing you need to do about conflict is to prevent it, and the best way of preventing it is by dealing with the question of poverty"

James Wolfensohn, Businessman

"The proposition that we should encourage wickedness and violence by exposing one side of the face to blows because we have been beaten on the other is too great an absurdity"

Thomas Mellon, Businessman

"They have a fine breeze and are now, we hope, well on their way"

Lewis Tappan, Businessman

"The African prisoners are orderly and peaceable among themselves"

Lewis Tappan, Businessman

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