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Jai Ganesh

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Businessman Quotes - I

Businessman Quotes - I

1. My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession. - Arnold Schwarzenegger

2. I don't think I'm a very good businessman. I act too much with my heart. - Pele

3. Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone. - Sigmund Freud

4. I'm a businessman, and what I know is numbers and business. - Magic Johnson

5. A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation. - Gilbert K. Chesterton

6. My head's not in the clouds, but I think I've gotten too much credit for being an astute businessman. - Steven Spielberg

7. I will certainly not join politics. I would like to be remembered as a clean businessman who has not partaken in any twists and turns beneath the surface, and one who has been reasonably successful. - Ratan Tata

8. I wanted to do two things when I was growing up, about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA, and I wanted to be a businessman after my basketball career was over, and that is what I am doing now. - Magic Johnson

9. It's different when you become a professional, because you also have to become a businessman, and that takes something away from it. - Sugar Ray Leonard

10. I'm a businessman and actor and I still make appearances. - Carl Lewis

11. I tell people to look at me and understand that everybody first told me that I couldn't be a 6-foot, 9-inch point guard, and I proved them wrong. Then they told me I couldn't be a businessman and make money in urban America, and I proved them wrong. And they thought I couldn't win all these championships, and I proved them wrong there as well. - Magic Johnson

12. We need business to understand its social responsibility, that the main task and objective for a business is not to generate extra income and to become rich and transfer the money abroad, but to look and evaluate what a businessman has done for the country, for the people, on whose account he or she has become so rich. - Vladimir Putin.

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