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"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."
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"We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass."
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"The idea of Tesla is to accelerate sustainable energy, to really make a difference."
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"The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'"
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"Regarding quality, the following rule is very important: do each activity right at the first time with the aim of saving money and time. Regardless of the process under consideration, the activities that were carried out badly may cause repetitions with considerable additional costs."
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"The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production."
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"Consumers care less about your brand's vision statement, they want value delivered."
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"Great companies are formed by great people. It's not about attracting great people, it's about retaining them."
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"Business, to be successful, must be based on science, for demand and supply are matters of mathematics, not guesswork."
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"If you go out to Hollywood you'll find a lot of fantastic plastic people there in the business and a lot of people in life generally. They find it so hard to be themselves that they have to be plastic."
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"Going into business for yourself, becoming an entrepreneur, is the modern-day equivalent of pioneering on the old frontier."
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"The REM and Nirvana successes don't mean much to me except as a potential distraction for bands who want to cash in on the trend. Don't try to sound like someone else. REM and Nirvana don't sound like anyone else."
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"Most good things happen with time; especially music, which needs time to breathe and to find its own way."
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
"There are several books out on punk history, but I haven't read any of them. I was there."
History
"There aren't enough people who are scaring the kind of people who work at these record companies."
Work
"I didn't want to wait around for some business entity to come around and give me money and tell me what to do. We just started releasing records as best we could."
Business
"We've gotten involved in cat rescue - we take them in and find homes for them. I've always loved cats. I saw how homeless cats were living out there. We take them in, put out flyers."
Cats
"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."
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"I listen to everything that comes in. I'm not real worried about demo sound quality. I can hear through that sort of thing. If a band can play, then they can play."
Quality
"I still think the best metal bands have a blues feel. The first Black Sabbath album is kind of a bludgeoning of blues. Deep Purple also started out as a blues band."
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