A businessman cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the loss. If bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences; if he fails, he passes the loss on to you.
I spend most of my career as a management consultant, a businessman working with family-owned small and medium-sized businesses. The businesses that make up the core of our economy.
A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.
I spoke with Abramovich. He is very simple and loves football. We were on the same wavelength: he wants to confirm Chelsea's position at the top.
Hopefully, Donald Trump's a very practical man.
Bin Laden comes out of a business background - he studied public administration and economics at university, and he worked for his family company, which was obviously a rather successful enterprise.
I'm having trouble warming up to Mitt Romney. He looks like the guy in the restaurant that comes to your table to make sure everything's all right.
I've always been a down-to-earth business guy.
"The Donald" is not really a plans guy.
I never set out to be a businessman
I'm not a young kid struggling to get to the top. I've been to the top. I gotta look out for my best interests as a businessman in this fight game. At the end of the day, it is a business. I've got children to take care of; I've got bills to pay.
Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman.
You ought to dream. All our biggest businessmen have been dreamers.
Trump is a big businessman. He's your boss or CEO, not one of your brothers on the line.
It's hard for them to run away from their record. The Kochs are businessmen.
I'm sure there are writers who are great businessmen, but I never met any.
There's one way of looking at the Trump phenomenon that he's essentially a Doofus or he is an opportunist.
Donald Trump is an interesting fellow.
Donald Trump is just a get-things-done kinda guy.
Businessmen in society are not going to be the ones that promote anything outside of money.
I've for some reason or other... never met Donald Trump.
I certainly want to be involved in politics and help shape the transition. I am in contact with regime critics who had to leave for the West. One of them is Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former businessman, who had to endure 10 years in a prison camp.
Donald Trump lives and operates in a political world, but he's not political. This is what people still don't get.
Business is a useful tool in politics, but it's not enough. You need much more than to be a good businessman, to be a good politician.
I'm not a TV guy. I'm a restaurant chef and a businessman.
