Businessmen Quotes

Talk show hosts are businessmen; they have to sell soap. If immigration reform didn't resonate with their audience, they wouldn't be talking about it. - Rick Oltman

Russian businessmen are not afraid of investing in Kyrgyzstan. They appreciate our current situation, and their programs are aimed at solving social problems. Opening joint enterprises means creating additional jobs and - to some extent - reducing unemployment. - Felix Kulov

President Bush said it's now time for a change in Iraq and he wants them to have a Western-style democracy like ours. So right now in Iraq, the economy is collapsing, businessmen are corrupt, and Hussein wants his son to take over as president. Sounds like mission accomplished. - Jay Leno

Pirates who were hired by many countries, especially in times of war, were businessmen and capitalists of every background searching for a profit in the Atlantic Ocean. Governments armed pirates' ships and directed the pirates to attack ships of other warring countries. America even hired its own pirates to disrupt British trade ships during the War of Independence. - Frank Lambert

People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people. - Calvin Klein

People who come up with It may not work or What are we going to do if it fails? do not have the credentials to be businessmen. If there is only a 1 percent chance of success, a true businessperson sees that 1 percent as the spark to light a fire. - Kim Woo-choong

Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances. - Steve Allen

On (a more) personal basis, what is wrong with Mr. Ho? He is, in fact, a papal awardee and one of the most respected businessmen in Macau. - Edward King

Nothing is illegal if a hundred businessmen decide to do it, and that's true anywhere in the world. - Andrew Young