American Businessman Quotes

Horticulture, for its proper advancement and full development, seems necessarily to be as international in its character as are the finances of the world.

Washington Atlee Burpee

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Perhaps the clearest and deepest meaning of brotherhood is the ability to imagine yourself in the other person's position, and then treat that person as if you were him or her. This form of brotherhood takes a lot of imagination, a great deal of sympathy, and a tremendous amount of understanding.

Obert C. Tanner

The great Pacific Railway is commenced... Immigration will soon pour into these valleys. Ten millions of emigrants will settle in this golden land in twenty years... This is the grandest enterprise under God!

George Francis Train

Humans used to desire love, money, food, shelter, safety, peace and freedom more than anything else. The last 30 years have changed us. Now people want to have a good job, and they want their children to have a good job. This changes everything for world leaders. Everything they do - from waging war to building societies - will need to be carried out within the new context of the need for a good job.

The greater the handicap, the greater the triumph.

John H. Johnson

As educators, our challenge is to match the needs of our learners to a world that is changing with great rapidity. To meet this challenge, we need to become strategic learners ourselves by deliberately expanding our perspectives and updating our approaches.

Heidi Hayes Jacobs

The market has a simple way of whittling all excessive pride and overblown egos down to size. After all, the whole idea is to be completely objective and recognize what the marketplace is telling you, rather than try to prove that the thing you said or did yesterday or six weeks ago was right. The fastest way to take a bath in the stock market or go broke is to try to prove that you are right and the market is wrong.

Even a brief interaction can change the way people think about themselves, their leaders, and the future. Each of those many connections you make has the potential to become a high point or a low point in someone's day.

Finding an excuse not to buy a brand can be just as enjoyable as finding an excuse to buy one. That, too, is human nature.

David F. D'Alessandro

Like sheep that get lost nibbling away at the grass because they never look up, we often focus so much on ourselves and our problems that we get lost.

Independent thinking is not just helpful in becoming a successful investor, it's required.

The Robertson family and bad ideas go together like biscuits and jam.

Willie Robertson

We do not do ourselves a good turn by becoming panicky at the idea of the mere number of engineers that are being produced in other countries, or by consciously engaging in a technological numbers race.

Black life is ambiguous, and a kaleidoscope of meanings, rich, multi-sided... we have frozen our vision in figures that caricature, at best the complexity of our lives and leave the real artistic chore of interpretation unfinished.

Charles B. Johnson

Money makes people listen. When you have it, then you have something others want and need. When you don't, you become invisible.

Earl G. Graves, Sr.

I stand here as a son, father, uncle who is tired of being scared for our boys. I'm tired of telling our young men how they can't dress, where they can't go and how they can't behave.

Benjamin Jealous

If nothing else will do to sever me from my sins, Lord, send me such sore and trying calamities as shall awake me from earthly slumbers. It must always be best to be alive to Thee, whatever be the quickening instrument.

Robert E. Murray

In life we don't get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

In short, ISIS is composed of religiously motivated psychopaths,

I remember one day in August of 2003 I made the decision to become (near) vegan and that once the decision was made I felt great emotional alignment within my heart. I knew this was the right thing for me to do and I also knew that I was making a decision that I would be committed to for the rest of my life. At last my beliefs and my ethics had come into alignment.

John Mackey (businessman)

The more communities in which you are an active participant, the more likely it is that you'll be happy.

Flexibility - In all aspects of life, the person with the most varied responses 'wins'.

I won't go hunting with you, Jake, but I'll go chasing women.

What's a promiscuous person? It's usually someone who is getting more sex than you are.