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Use "hard-headed" in a sentence
"But the fact that he was a hard-headed business man as well as an adventurer did not keep him from having a queer spot in his brain, because hard-headed business men are as susceptible to such spots as adventurers are."
"Redknapp was described as a "hard-headed businessman" as the jury of eight men and four women were shown a string of documents and his signature."
"Unlike the original entente cordiale, which was the product of mutual concern about a hostile power before the first world war, the latest treaty is the product of hard-headed pragmatism, designed to maximise each nation's military capabilites while saving money."