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Businessman   /bˈɪznəsmˌæn/  /bˈɪznɪsmˌæn/   Listen
Businessman

noun
(pl. businessmen)
1.
A person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive).  Synonym: man of affairs.



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"Businessman" Quotes from Famous Books



... land of freedom." A graduate of Yale, he became a multi-millionaire in the American insurance industry, introducing brilliant innovations within that industry. He also, unlike a few composers, found the time and the money (being a shrewd and practical businessman) to get married and ...
— Essays Before a Sonata • Charles Ives

... requires a long apprenticeship to become a first-class blacksmith or horseshoer. To obtain the rudiments of a physician's art it is necessary to spend four to six years in college. To learn a language takes an apt pupil at least a year. A lawyer must study from two to four years to become a novice. A businessman must work many years before he is an expert in his line. Not one of these attainments is worth as much as good health, yet an individual of average intelligence can obtain enough knowledge about right living ...
— Maintaining Health • R. L. Alsaker

... I proceed further? By your own admission, every businessman who takes undue advantage of another ...
— True Riches - Or, Wealth Without Wings • T.S. Arthur

... end; and yet it is imperfect, from a twofold source. First, because the good which it takes for an end, is not the common end of all human life, but of some particular affair; thus when a man devises fitting ways of conducting business or of sailing a ship, he is called a prudent businessman, or a prudent sailor; secondly, because he fails in the chief act of prudence, as when a man takes counsel aright, and forms a good judgment, even about things concerning life as a whole, but fails to ...
— Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) • Thomas Aquinas



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