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  • Chaplin is no business man - all he knows is that he can't take anything less.

  • A big business man was telling Henry Ford about a coach driver of super-expertness with his whip. The driver was telling how he could flick a fly off his horse's ear with his whip-and, a fly alighting just then, he promptly did so. Next he spied a grasshopper beside the road, and he flicked it off with equal dexterity. A little further along the road the passenger noticed an insect on a bush, and nudged the driver to get him. Not on your life, replied the master of the whip. That there insect is a hornet sitting on his nest with an organization behind him. I leave him alone.

    Horse   Business   Men  
  • It is so difficult to mix with artists! You must choose business men to talk to, because artists only talk of money.

    Artist   Men   Difficult  
    "Sibelius: A Close-Up" by Jean Sibelius, London: Faber and Faber, (p. 94),
  • Basilicas should be constructed on a site adjoining the forum and in the warmest possible quarter, so that in winter business men may gather in them without being troubled by the weather.

    Winter   Men   Weather  
    "De architectura (Ten Books on Architecture)". Book by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Book V, Chapter I, Section 4), circa 15 BC.
  • 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.

    Life   Science   Men  
    Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”
  • The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'

    Orison Swett Marden (1907). “The Optimistic Life”
  • I object to publishers: the one service they have done me is to teach me to do without them. They combine commercial rascality with artistic touchiness and pettishness, without being either good business men or fine judges of literature.

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

    Business   Work   Men  
    Robert Louis Stevenson (1999). “The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays”, p.40, Cooper Square Press
  • Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive.

    "OpenGL Shading Language". Book by Randi J. Rost, 2006.
  • 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.

  • Call on a business man only at business times, and on business; transact your business, and go about your business, in order to give him time to finish his business.

    Business   Men   Order  
  • Why should not Africa give to the world its Black Rockefeller, Rothschild and Henry Ford? Now is the opportunity. Now is the chance for every Negro to make every effort toward a commercial, industrial standard that will make us comparable with the successful business men of other races.

    Marcus Garvey, Amy Jacques Garvey (1923). “The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans”, The Majority Press
  • With my sister perched on my arm, I walked to the elevator. A business man with a rolling suitcase was waiting by the doors. His eyes widened as he saw me. I must’ve looked pretty strange—a tall black kid in dirty, ragged Egyptian clothes, with a weird box tucked under one arm and a bird of prey perched on the other. “How’s it going?” I said. “I’ll take the stairs.” He hurried off.

    Dirty   Kids   Eye  
  • 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.

    "Self-Motivation Through Risk Taking! : Are You Leading Or Do You Wither with Problems?". Book by M. Nadarajan Munisamy, 2005.
  • I am more of a sponge than an inventor. I absorb ideas from every source. I take half-matured schemes for mechanical development and make them practical. I am a sort of a middleman between the long-haired and impractical inventor and the hard-headed business man who measures all things in terms of dollars and cents. My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant but misdirected ideas of others.

    Men   Ideas   Long  
  • Bill Gates really seems to be much more of a business man than a technologist, while I prefer to think of Linux in technical terms rather than as a means to money. As such, I'm not very likely to make the same kind of money that Bill made.

    Mean   Thinking   Men  
    Source: www.linuxfocus.org
  • If somebody can create an absolute system of beliefs and rules of conduct that will guide a business man at eleven o'clock in the morning, a boy trying to select a career, a woman in an unhappy love affair--well then, surely no pragmatist will object. He insists only that philosophy shall come down to earth and be tried out there.

    Walter Lippmann, Julien C. Sprott (2015). “Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest”, p.145, University of Wisconsin Pres
  • If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!

  • There ought to be more scrupulous honesty in big business men than in any other human relation. For big business requires teamwork on a gigantic scale.

  • I originally thought I'd be an ordinary business man, but I really like art, so that's how I became a manga artist.

    Art   Men   Ordinary  
  • 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.

    Men   Thinking   Ideas  
    David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House
  • In all cities, the better classes - the business men - are the sources of corruption, but they are so rarely pursued and caught that we do not fully realize whence the trouble comes.

    Men   Class   Cities  
    Lincoln Steffens (2012). “The Shame of the Cities”, p.40, Courier Corporation
  • Obamacare has got everyone on edge. I mean, small business - men and women or big business are sitting out there saying we have no idea what this is going to cost, but we know it's going to cost us and cost us a lot.

    Mean   Men   Ideas  
  • The people among which I lived - and yet live, mainly - made their living from cotton, wheat, cattle, oil, with the usual percentage of business men and professional men.

    Men   Oil   People  
    Robert E. Howard (2007). “The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 1: Volume 1: The Shadow Kingdom”, p.15, Del Rey
  • Who was the greatest business man ever. . . The greatest salesman? Advertiser? Who? . . . It was Jesus. . . Jesus was the founder of modern business. . . he picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organization that conquered the world!

  • Rocinante was of more value for a true traveller than a jet plane. Jet planes were for business men.

    Travel   Men   Jet Planes  
  • Literary men are being employed to praise a big business man personally, as men used to praise a king. They not only find political reasons for the commercial schemes that they have done for some time past they also find moral defences for the commercial schemers... I do resent the whole age of patronage being revived under such absurd patrons; and all poets becoming court poets, under kings that have taken no oath.

    Kings   Taken   Past  
    "Utopia of Usurers". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, pp. 15-17, 1917.
  • The business man who gains success at the expense of the poor and miserable gains nil respect from his peers.

    Respect   Men   Peers  
  • I'm not one of those people who's saying "I'm going to set up a production company", because I like acting and not having to be a business man and do that side of things.

    Men   People   Acting  
    "Nicholas Hoult Talks YOUNG ONES, EQUALS, MAD MAX: FURY ROAD, X-MEN: APOCALYPSE, AUTOBAHN, KILL YOUR FRIENDS, and Much More". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. October 17, 2014.
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