Acumen Quote by Donna Mills

My grandfather was a very successful businessman. He started off as an engineer, but moved to sales to management to executive over a long…

— Hank Green

I worked offshore as an oil worker for a couple of years.

— Richard Linklater

My Dad sold automobiles as a general manager of a General Motors automobile dealership. He was a job creator. Everyone of those cars he…

— Joe Biden

My father was an investment banker, a stock broker.

— Marc Randolph

I started working in the oilfield upon graduating high school. I was on the service end of it, driving tank trucks for Johnny Geer…

— Harold Hamm

“Set yourself to becoming the best-informed person in the agency on the account to which you are assigned. If, for example, it is a…

— David Ogilvy

I came out of a blue-collar town, a GM town, and my father worked at GM, so I was very familiar with that kind…

— Edward Burtynsky

My grandfather and dad worked at General American Transportation Corp. in Chicago, a company that made tank cars and freight cars. We had a…

— Bill Moseley

My father was a civil servant, fairly sort of middle ranking, low to middle ranking. He worked almost entirely in what was then called…

— John Hume

My father, Beric, ran a joinery business and owned two factories.

— Toyah Willcox

In the Soviet Union I was the head of all oil production. And you know in the Soviet Union, you didn't get that job…

— Vagit Alekperov

My dad for a long time was an accounting professor at Rice University. And then he went out on his own, and he got…

— John Mackey