Entrepreneurs and Tech Hucksters say a lot of things
What's number two?
Priest, followed by prostitute. I suppose if you interpreted either "priest", "politics", or both broadly, then you could say that politics is as well the oldest profession.
I was thinking of a forth P, Pimpin'.
...so I looked it up. Oddly enough, the world's oldest proffession wasn't always whoring. It was first a tailor of all things. Went through all the old stand bys ( farmers,[1] cattle drovers,[2] horticulturalists,[3] engineers,[4] landscape gardeners,[5] the military,[6] doctors,[7] nurses,[8] teachers,[9] priests[10] and even lawyers.) before settling on prostitutes before WWI (thanks to Kipling and Shaw). Some people didn't catch on as quickly as others....
