#businessmen

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

#bank #businessmen #checks #compromised #crooked

If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers. ↗

— Irvin S. Cobb

#good #much #sense #too #too much

Chris Cutler was kind enough to offer his company as an umbrella, so now I can have all my back catalogue under one roof as it were, and it has the same feeling as with Daniel; this is a matter between friends rather than businessmen. ↗

— Fred Frith

#between #businessmen #catalogue #chris #company

The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers, but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and the people generally. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

#bankers #businessmen #century #consistently #disastrous

Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business. ↗

— Malcolm Forbes

#business #businessmen #capable #democracy #democratic

We need to be clear when we venerate entrepreneurs what we are venerating.They are not moral leaders. If they were moral leaders, they wouldn't be great businessmen. ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

#clear #entrepreneurs #great #leaders #moral

Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly. ↗

— Mario Puzo

#achieving #businessmen #competition #efficient #free

Businessmen... were not born chief executives. They were often people first. ↗

— Richard Jefferson

#businessmen #chief #executives #first #often

I don't care to analyze acting. On the other hand there is a fascination because distributors are putting out British films. You get films here with great performances you'll never see again. Why compare. We should go after the businessmen. ↗

— Tim Roth

#after #again #analyze #because #british

The Macau casinos have a wonderful business, it's taking in money from Chinese businessmen elsewhere who send it through junky companies to casinos to gamble. The growth continues and they have basically western managers and western accounting, so we trust the numbers a little bit more. ↗

— James Chanos

#basically #bit #business #businessmen #casinos