Businessman Quote by Alfred Kazin

He had a sense of his dignity, which was of the most exquisite nature. He could detect a design upon it when nobody else…

— Charles Dickens

“He had the neurotic's partial vision of life, and a sense of the absurdity which adheres to all effort when observed in the light…

— Guy Vanderhaeghe

“He thought the best thing he had gained in Paris was a complete liberty of spirit, and he felt himself at last absolutely free.…

— William Somerset Maugham

...he shrunk more and more from the realities of life and above all from the society of his day which he regarded with an…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

“He was one of that class of men who, apart from a scientific career in which they may well have proved brilliantly successful, have…

— Marcel Proust

“with little sleep and much reading his brains got so dry that he lost his wits. His fancy grew full of what he used…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“And his life was now, he felt, one monumental unreality, in which everything that did not matter - professional ambitions, the private pursuit of…

— Richard Flanagan

“I remember to this day how easily I could grasp what he called his tentative ideas when he talked about the architectural style of…

— W.G. Sebald

A man, to carry on a successful business, must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole…

— Charles M. Schwab

He was the first to conceive of movies as an art form. His belief was that if the traditional art form would not find…

— Richard Schickel

“He was wondering at the unreality of ideas, at the fading radiance of existence, and at the little absorptions that were creeping avidly into…

— F Scott Fitzgerald

“Components of his experiences seemed to break down, sorting into hard facts, like a series of crystals, as if they could be arranged, made…

— Brent Hayward