Businessman Quotes

Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.

It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.

Our society cannot progress while our constitution stands still.

Our democracy poses problems and these problems must and shall be solved by courageous leadership.

My goal was to make New Jersey's state government a model for all other states to emulate, hopefully thereby to stem, or at least slow down, the flow of power to the federal government.

It is necessary to take an active part in politics to observe how often the welfare of the party organization is put before the issues, even before the welfare of the commonwealth.

It is my happy privilege to be able to stand here and tell you that if you elect me you will have elected a governor who has made no promises of preferment to any man or group.

In view of our public pledges, we public officials can never again go before the public merely promising election reform. The time for promises is past.

In physics, to be in two places at the same time would be a miracle; in politics it seems not merely normal, but natural.

I would rather be respected than elected.

I want to make this perfectly clear: you can be sure that I will never be a yes-man except to my own conscience.

I have no desire to go in for tyranny or to play the part of King Charles. I hate tyranny in any field of human activity.

I am confident that this legislature will rise above partisan bickering, especially after the public promises its members made last fall, and that it will demonstrate a high capacity for civil service.

Conscious of our many problems, I seek today to lay a foundation to our public policy. My fundamental purpose is to devote my term of office to raising the standard of public service in New Jersey.

Any man who takes a job with the idea that it is simply a springboard for something else is a chump. His attention will be more on the other things than on the job at hand and so he will fail.

A new constitution should be more amendable. A needlessly confusing system of courts should be altered to produce an arrangement that would be simple, responsible, and less awkward.

I want to say here and now, that I demand unshakable integrity of every State employee.

Bosses are no more inevitable in state and local governments than dictators are in national governments. They will arise and prosper, nevertheless, if true believers of democracy - citizens devoted to the democratic ideals - do not constantly oppose them.

Economics, politics, and personalities are often inseparable.

What we need now is a Treaty of the World not a Treaty of Rome.

They say Formula One is a market which it can't be, obviously. Our market is independent, it's a sport.

People want to build new circuits around the world and they say: 'We'll come to Silverstone and have a look how it's done', and I tell them to stay away.

The second host that I had was an actress I didn't know named Susan St. James.

The definition of winning has become distorted. If winning the rights to a property brings with it hundreds of millions of dollars in losses, what have you won? When faced with the prospect of heavy financial losses, we have consistently walked away and have done so again.

She says that I wore some pretty sexy leather pants to that first meeting, but I don't remember.

Out all of these zillions of letters, one of the first ones that came was, as it turned out from Johnny Carson within the last five or six weeks of his life. I had worked with him. He lost a son who had worked for me.

If there's anything that is the center of my career both creatively and emotionally, it's the Olympics.

I was never really a big presence in the home.

I will never be cynical again about people.

I live more than anything else to produce the Games.