Though popular for a businessman, Sir Richard also has plenty of critics, especially at home in Britain, where relentless self-promotion is still frowned on.
They gave him kudos for being a businessman, saying that would be a good attribute for a president in creating jobs, but they also underscored what they had heard in the ads that had been running in their hometowns.
Dizaei, 50, from Acton, west London, was jailed in 2010 for framing a businessman after a row.
For a frustrated businessman in Beijing, however, Taobao offered a window into another kind of market: capital.
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Dizaei, 50, from Acton, west London, was jailed in 2010 for four years for framing a businessman after a row.
Indeed, the best thing for a Russian businessman to do is nothing which is largely the course Igor and his colleagues have been adopting.
For nearly a year, FBI agents had been tracking an Israeli businessman working for a local phone company.
His wife has been jailed for murdering a British businessman and he awaits trial on charges of corruption and abuse of power.
It sounds like a crazy conspiracy theory: a secretive businessman founds a for-profit medical center to treat cancer.
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Delgado, one of Lugo's clients at the gym, had once worked for Marc Schiller, a wealthy Miami businessman whom they targeted for kidnapping.
The result was a victory for billionaire businessman Ivanishvili, who only entered politics last year.
The same week, airport police arrested a businessman for a traffic violation.
The Democrats should turn a deaf ear to his pleas for mercy on his record as a businessman and tax shelterer.
Over the years, he's gained a reputation for being a savvy-yet-personable businessman.
Shortly before Ramadan, a sumptuous open-air wedding party for the son of a very rich businessman was invaded by masked riot police who had apparently been dispatched at the instigation of a political foe.
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Days later, an appeal court upheld the death sentence against Helmut Hofer, a German businessman arrested a year ago for having an affair with an Iranian Muslim woman.
Those who know or have worked with him say Anschutz is a down-to-earth, hard-driving businessman with a fondness for chomping on little unlit cigars.
Also imagine a frequent traveling businessman flying into a small airport for a nearby meeting.
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Its depiction of a status-conscious businessman who falls for the simple life also struck a chord with audiences who are beginning to question China's materialistic society.
She studied chemistry at Oxford University and worked for a plastics company before marrying businessman Denis Thatcher in 1951.
Ten years ago Laury made a controversial choice for Businessman of the Year in his magazine: Masayoshi Son of Japan's SoftBank.
Hence the crusade for technology: Ross is a businessman, first and foremost, so he needed to find a way to lure spectators back in the field.
In Russia's Black Sea oil port of Novorossisk, for example, a local British businessman, Clive Rumens, wanted to set up a small factory producing a simple additive that makes crude oil pour more easily.
This would apply, for example, to a UK businessman working in Dubai and paying taxes there whose partner remains in the UK with their children, or to an EU national working in the UK whose partner has substantial earnings in their home country.
School proved challenging for the burgeoning businessman, perhaps for lack of adequate encouragement: A teacher once told his mother he was mentally retarded and may never have the ability to read.
Shops were looted in the Eastleigh neighbourhood, as angry youths blamed ethnic Somalis for Sunday's explosion, a businessman said.
That pass and other highly sought-after tickets for basketball and gymnastics were given to me for free by a well-connected businessman.
However, his experience on that film, and his second movie, American Graffiti, proved to be defining moments for Lucas as a filmmaker and a businessman.
Between 2002 and 2004, Francisco Correa made secret cash payments to Barcenas, acting as a sort of lobbyist for businessman Alfonso Garcia Pozuelo, head of construction company Constructora Hispanica.
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