Sentence examples for poor businessman from inspiring English sources

Mr. Floyd, by his own admission, was a poor businessman.

The real issue, Mr. Swain said, is that Mr. Niman was a poor businessman.

A poor businessman and a poorer judge of men, de Forest was defrauded twice by his own business partners.

The father, who had moved to Texas with his wife from Missouri at the turn of the 20th century, was a pretty good blacksmith but a poor businessman.

One of Baum's four sons described him as "a creative man with glorious ideas -- but a poor businessman -- enthusiastic -- imaginative -- but unreal and impractical -- I always said it was a good thing that Mother managed the family finances instead of Father".

An indifferent family man, and poor businessman, he lost the bathhouse sometime in Yasohachi's childhood.

Various promises are made to soothe the rich, the poor, businessmen, bankers and foreign investors.

Mr. Caputo attributed his tax problems to his poor skills as a businessman, saying that he opened a public relations business in South Florida without much background in finance.

Aggressive traffic enforcement tactics inevitably bear down disparately on the poor and marginal; a businessman who gets caught going 17mph over the speed limit every two or three years can tolerate the occasional hit, but for the guy who has no choice but to drive 30 minutes each way to his just-above-minimum-wage job, such fines can be enormously burdensome.

She used words such as "refuse" and "parasites" to describe the poor, while celebrating millionaire businessmen as heroes.

An array of forces -- paramilitary groups that have gained at the rebels' expense, ranchers, businessmen and poor farmers -- have lined up against the plan.