"Businessman" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... years that followed his graduation from college he was a businessman and a poor one, for a man who looks after public affairs much can not attend to his own. But he managed to make shift; and when too closely pressed by creditors, a loan from Hancock, or John Adams, Hancock's attorney, relieved the pressure. In fact, when he went to Philadelphia ...
— Little Journeys To the Homes of the Great, Volume 3 (of 14) • Elbert Hubbard
... youth is so dangerously elastic, that the result of these intellectual excesses is not seen until years after. When some young girl incurs spinal disease for life from some slight fall which she ought not to have felt for an hour, or some businessman breaks down in the prime of his years from some trifling over-anxiety which should have left no trace behind, the popular verdict may be, "Mysterious Providence"; but the wiser observer sees the retribution for the folly of those misspent days which enfeebled the childish constitution, ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 4, No. 23, September, 1859 • Various
... this class of citizens is familiar to us in the streets. They are very courteous in their salutations; they have time enough to bow and take their hats off,—which, of course, no businessman can afford to do. Their beavers are smoothly brushed, and their boots well polished; all their appointments are tidy; they look the respectable walking gentleman to perfection. They are prone to habits,—they ...
— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)
... a skeptical businessman, "that I am not an assassin who will ambush you on the way to ...
— The Deadly Daughters • Winston K. Marks
... to the beginning. The first case listed was that of Kenneth Arnold, a Boise businessman, who had set off the saucer scare. Arnold was flying his private plane from Chehalis to Yakima, Washington, when he saw a bright flash on ...
— The Flying Saucers are Real • Donald Keyhoe
... The right of every businessman, large and small, to trade in an atmosphere of freedom from unfair competition and domination by ...
— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various |
