Businessmen Quotes

“Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power is exercised by means of a negative, by the threat of punishment, injury, imprisonment, destruction. The businessman's tool is values; the bureaucrat's tool is fear.”
― Ayn Rand

“Many businesses fail because the founders don’t realize that they are going to be more than just the founder or the owner of that business.”
― Pooja Agnihotri, 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure

“America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes. They did not starve the people to pay for America's industrialization. They gave the people better jobs, higher wages, and cheaper goods with every new machine they invented, with every scientific discovery or technological advance- and thus the whole country was moving forward and profiting, not suffering, every step of the way.”
― Ayn Rand

“Don't step on shits, don't be part of shits, don't shit on others as you escape from other bullshits." ~ Angelica Hopes, an excerpt from If I Could Tell You”
― Angelica Hopes

“The "west"-what curse has fallen upon it that at the term of its trajectory it produces only these businessmen, these shopkeepers, these racketeers with their blank stares and atrophied smiles... is it with such vermin as this that a civilization so delicate and so complex must come to an end?”
― Emil Cioran

“Providing employment is the best form of social service, as it serves you, others, your country, your world - the entire society.”
― Amit Kalantri

“I got tired of constantly watching shrewd little bullies like you walk around like you mean something, like you’re better than the people that make your life possible, like you were born entitled to run the world. And I should confess, Mr. Bunting, that I don’t think I’ve ever had as much fun as I’ve had helping to destroy your silly little empire.”
― Christopher Rankin, Creating Monsters

“Be blessed with an honest character, true heart.
Wise, dignified people who value honesty stir away from dishonest, corrupt schemers.
Great reward is not on titles, position, appearances, status or richness but the peace of one's heart and service to humanity.
Peace of one's heart can mean far and away and not falling into any Machiavellian trap.”
― Angelica Hopes

“It is a mistake to think businessmen are more immoral than politicians.”
― John Maynard Keynes

“A real businessman value his partners like friends and his partnership like friendship.”
― Amit Kalantri

“But a certain dullness of mind seems an almost necessary qualification, if not for every public man, at least for every one seriously engaged in making money.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

“Life curses some poor people with the love of luxury, while it blesses some with the very same thing.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Today, a lot of people, businesses, countries and even churches have their dreams sleeping in the belly of the shark where they are starved because they chose the wrong path although they know the right destination! The consequence is "becoming uncomfortable" because you refuse to let your dreams go to let "Niviveh"!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“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, Ragtime

“Hungry lions don't wait for the food to come, their absence in the cave indicates their hunger.”
― Aiyaz Uddin

“Steven Fata was born into the entrepreneurial life and appreciates his upbringing as the son and grandson of businessmen.”
― Steven Fata

“that this dying landscape belongs
to the dead, the crofters and fighters
and fishermen whose larochs
sink into the bracken
by Loch Assynt and Loch Crochach? -
to men trampled under the hoofs of sheep
and driven by deer to the ends of the earth
- to men whose loyalty
was so great it accepted their own betrayal
by their own chiefs and whose
descendants now
are kept in their place
by English businessmen and the
indifference
of a remote and ignorant government.”
― Norman MacCaig, Between Mountain and Sea: Poems from Assynt