Businessman Quote by Mason Cooley

Great entrepreneurs focus intensely on an opportunity where others see nothing. This focus and intensity helps to eliminate wasted effort and distractions. Most companies…

— Naveen Jain

Now the struggle for life is so sharp, competition is so severe, that few men can succeed who carry a useless burden. The businessmen…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Confronted with this double madness of the labourers killing themselves with over-production and vegetating in abstinence, the great problem of capitalist production is no…

— Paul Lafargue

“in business doing nothing is often the hardest thing. (And not just in business. Harold Macmillan, prime minister during the Cuban missile crisis, mused…

— Simon Kuper

The bourgeoisie's weapon is starvation. If as a writer or artist you run counter to their narrow notions they simplyand silently withdraw your means…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“One of the causes of unhappiness among intellectuals in the present day is that so many of them, especially those whose skill is literary,…

— Bertrand Russell

“Intelligent men never do a business; only a fool kills his own beautiful instincts for the sake of a word profit.”

— Thiruman Archunan

To condemn spontaneous and delightful occupations because they are useless for self-preservation shows an uncritical prizing of life irrespective of its content.

— George Santayana

“Partially undermining the manufacturer's ability to assert that its work constituted a meaningful contribution to mankind was the frivolous way in which it went…

— Alain de Botton

“The businessmen wondered if they could create such individuals not from the accidents of news events but from the deliberate manufactures of their own…

— E.L. Doctorow

Entrepreneurs are the forgotten heroes of America.

— Ronald Reagan

Business is the salt of life, which not only gives a grateful smack to it, but dries up those crudities that would offend, preserves…

— Owen Feltham