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"The ultimate profit of all businesses should be happiness."
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"16th century advertisements cannot market 21st century products. Look for what is necessary at the present moment."
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"If you have ever experienced this type of unprofessional treatment, I doubt you would even consider giving them business in the future. Interrupting, ignoring, patronizing, or antagonizing a customer is like pouring gas on a fire and creates a more explosive situation than the original complaint. Still, it continues to happen every day, costing companies millions in lost revenue."
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"My grandfather had a paint store. It's what put my mom through college. Small business is part of my family history."
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"All those years we'd spent learning these chops, and all those gigs in Germany where you'd play all night, and along comes punk. It has nothing to do with that. A lot of people went out of business."
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"It's really impossible to project ahead even six months in this business."
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"Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail."
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"For official record, if become bankrupt old retail distribution centers-labeled supermega, so-enlarged foodstuff market- later reincarnate to become worship shrine. First sell food-stuff, next then same structure sell battered furnitures, next now born as gymnasium club, next broker flea markets, only at final end of life...sell religions."
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"Agile does not mean laissez-faire, flexibility and freedom are based on the well-defined principles."
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"Redundancy is my favourite business strategy."
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"The public is usually slow to catch on to new things, and it's important that musicians stick to their guns and not look for that instant gratification."
Musicians
"The Minutemen were seen as more of an art thing than Black Flag, although I didn't see them that way. It confused people when we put out Saccharine Trust, too."
Art
"SST was formed to put out the first Black Flag record. Basically, there wasn't anyone else to do it. I felt that what I was doing with Black Flag was very worthwhile, and I wanted to get it out there."
First
"I didn't have a lot of overtly political songs. I think it was more the actions of the group that were threatening to the authorities, and also our political philosophies apart from the music."
Music
"We're not good at propping up old carcasses. We want to be on top of what's vital at any particular time, and not just hold onto something because it has a name."
Time
"If people are really excited about their music, and that's their primary motivation, then that comes through in demo tapes. That's the most important ingredient."
Music
"Punk rock really came out of N.Y. as a philosophy before the groups were ever recorded. I had a kind-of intellectual interest in the idea of creating a new scene that could be a grassroots thing."
Idea
"Most good things happen with time; especially music, which needs time to breathe and to find its own way."
Time
"I had business experience. I had made my living designing and building electronic equipment. Basic business was not new to me, but the music business was completely new to me. I knew nothing about distribution, or any of those things."
Business
"As a label, you have to treat every group and every record as a unique entity. I think that that has been our success, rather than relying upon a fan base."
Success
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