Businessman Quotes

Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one.

Business is tough; you need tough guys.

You don't build your character by doing what everybody else is doing.

I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.

Being in a multicultural environment in childhood is going to give you intuition, reflexes and instincts. You may acquire basic responsiveness later on, but it's never going to be as spontaneous as when you have been bathing in this environment during childhood.

Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.

Employees are your most valuable assets. They are the heart and guts of a company. This doesn't mean that from time to time, you aren't going to do what is good for the company.

I think that the best training a top manager can be engaged in is management by example.

Good is somebody who delivered and allowed the company to overcome obstacles, without leaving a profound impact on its culture. Great is somebody who leads his company to achievements and performance and value that nobody was expecting it had.

You have to listen to the people who have a negative opinion as well as those who have positive opinion. Just to make sure that you are blending all these opinions in your mind before a decision is made.

Commitment. This is my favorite word because in some way, people who are committed are always much more interesting and much more reliable, and much more, I would say, deep than people who are not.

I was 37 when my father died-and I no longer had any freedom of choice over what I would do with the rest of my life.

I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.

I take pride in the creation of my wealth, in its existence and in the uses to which it has been and is being put.

I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily.

I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.

I have absolutely no intention of marrying Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

I can afford to say what I wish.

I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity.

I am - and have always been - a Methodist.

How does one measure the success of a museum?

Governments, of course, can - and do - soak the rich.

Five wives can't all be wrong.

During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures.

Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.

A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.

Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.

Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit.

My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.

You cannot further the Brotherhood of Man by encouraging class hatred.