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"We were not given any statistics as to how many records were pressed on the blue label. I used to ask Bob Shad how we were going to get paid from record sales and what I got for an answer was not to worry about the business end of the deal."
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"Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car."
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"It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket."
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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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"Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand."
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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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"My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations."
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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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"Each one of us had a little story to tell and each recording was based on that. Lou played all of the music but we both sort of kicked around some cords during the writing phase."
Music
"We were not given any statistics as to how many records were pressed on the blue label. I used to ask Bob Shad how we were going to get paid from record sales and what I got for an answer was not to worry about the business end of the deal."
Business
"Lou and I met while we were in high school in our senior year. We were in many of the same classes together and quite a few times we went over to his house to hang out."
School
"I remember seeing the song in some diners on the selection gadget that plays records at the table while you were eating. We were never told if the songs ever got on any charts."
Eating
"We played in bars and other such establishments and anywhere where people would listen. Sometimes they did, and sometimes not. The outfits we wore were classics of the 50's."
People
"In those days, it didn't take much imagination to come up with something that required great lyric development skills. You just thought of an experience that you might have gone through, and write it down."
Experience
"The skit was very successful based on the applause. After that show, the three of us decided to get together and try and come up with some songs that we could all participate in."
Success
"The way they had the room that I was in set up, there was some sort of sound deadening platform that I had to stand on in order to get close enough to the microphone."
Order
"He asked my girlfriend if we could come over and sing some of the songs that we had written, which we did. After he heard the songs, he said that he knew someone in the record business by the name of Bob Shad."
Business
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