My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. -- (Comment made 10 April 1962 in reaction to news that U.S. Steel was raising prices by $6 per ton, right after the unions negotiated a modest new contract under pressure from JFK to keep inflation down.)
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It made me sick to watch those businessmen applaud Welles during the 1975 AFI tribute, when you know that the next day if he asked any one of them for money, they'd say, 'We'll let you know.'
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People in places many of us never heard of, whose names we can't pronounce or even spell, are speaking up for themselves. They speak in languages we once classified as exotic but whose mastery is now essential for our diplomats and businessmen. But what they say is very much the same the world over. They want a decent standard of living. They want human dignity and a voice in their own futures. They want their children to grow up strong and healthy and free.
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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.
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For the past 15 years or so, British governments have tried to persuade the rest of us that the best judges of the national interest are...businessmen. This may be a ridiculous statement, but -- ominously -- fewer and fewer people laugh at it.
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Many businessmen fail to understand Python principles--the ultimate absurdity was an offer from America to buy the 'format' of the Python shows, that is, Monty Python without the Pythons--corporate methods do not have the conceptual framework to deal with an anarchist collective, run by intelligent and arrogant comedians who have proved that their method works.
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Nothing is illegal if a hundred businessmen decide to do it.
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Asking to meet with Italian businessmen instead of government officials. I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.
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There are always opportunities through which businessmen can profit handsomely if they will only recognize and seize them.
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If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.
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People who come up with It may not work or What are we going to do if it fails? do not have the credentials to be businessmen. If there is only a 1 percent chance of success, a true businessperson sees that 1 percent as the spark to light a fire.
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Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
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Honest businessmen should be protected from the unscrupulous consumer.
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My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. (On steel industry executives who increased prices)
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Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections.
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My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now.
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Businessmen... were not born chief executives. They were often people first.
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