Famous quotes by Businessman

"Our company is built on people - those who work for us, and those we do business with"

Harvey S. Firestone, Businessman

"It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed"

Harvey S. Firestone, Businessman

"Zen teaches that once we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform that situation and lighten up about it"

Allen Klein, Businessman

"Today's business and health care climate may not be pleasant. Cutbacks, pay cuts and layoffs do not make anyone's job easy. But that does not mean that the humor need stop!"

Allen Klein, Businessman

"The tragedy of September 11th was so sudden, so enormous, and so horrendous, both in terms of lives lost and global consequences, that this country and the world went into immediate and prolonged shock"

Allen Klein, Businessman

"I contend that not only can you laugh at adversity, but it is essential to do so if you are to deal with setbacks without defeat"

Allen Klein, Businessman

"Humor expands our limited picture frame and gets us to see more than just our problem"

Allen Klein, Businessman

"The way of the pioneer is always rough"

Harvey S. Firestone, Businessman

"I can walk through the front door of any factory and out the back and tell you if it's making money or not. I can just tell by the way it's being run and by the spirit of the workers"

Harvey S. Firestone, Businessman

"Capital isn't that important in business. Experience isn't that important. You can get both of these things. What is important is ideas"

Harvey S. Firestone, Businessman

"We must recognize that as the dominant power in the world we have a special responsibility. In addition to protecting our national interests, we must take the leadership in protecting the common interests of humanity"

George Soros, Businessman

"Now that I have called you on your false accusation, you are using additional smear tactics"

George Soros, Businessman

"I think there's a lot of merit in an international economy and global markets, but they're not sufficient because markets don't look after social needs"

George Soros, Businessman

"We are the most powerful nation on earth. No external power, no terrorist organization, can defeat us. But we can defeat ourselves by getting caught in a quagmire"

George Soros, Businessman

"Success is 99 percent failure"

Soichiro Honda, Businessman

"Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger"

Allen Klein, Businessman

"What you do as president has consequences"

Steve Forbes, Businessman

"A promise made should be a promise kept"

Steve Forbes, Businessman

"I could not understand how it could move under its own power. And when it had driven past me, without even thinking why, I found myself chasing it down the road, as hard as I could run"

Soichiro Honda, Businessman

"If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life. Ideas are any man's greatest asset"

Harvey S. Firestone, Businessman

"Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing"

Allen Klein, Businessman

"The rise of China as a new power is another great challenge for the US. Our failure to properly handle Germany and Japan earlier in the 20th century cost us and the world dearly. We must not make this same mistake with China"

Steve Forbes, Businessman

"No more turning a blind eye to Chinese spies in our nuclear labs. No more keeping silent about Chinese slave labor camps"

Steve Forbes, Businessman

"I want to make the world better"

Gordon Getty, Businessman

"I don't think events in your life affect your music"

Gordon Getty, Businessman

"When my opera Plump Jack was performed in 1989, my first piano teacher sent me something that I'd composed when I was four. I remember I played it, and it still sounded like me. I'm the same composer I was then"

Gordon Getty, Businessman

"I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of her poems and immediately began composing in my head. I wrote down the melodies even before I got to a piano"

Gordon Getty, Businessman

"I'm not afraid to take a swing and miss"

Frederick W. Smith, Businessman

"Strong men have sound ideas and the force to make these ideas effective"

Andrew Mellon, Businessman

"Give tax breaks to large corporations, so that money can trickle down to the general public, in the form of extra jobs"

Andrew Mellon, Businessman

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