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"I was a window dresser for Burton's once. What really put me off was the area manager coming round and saying, Charles, I think you're a natch at this."
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"The only difference between May and Day is the M and D! Be a good Managing Director of your life each day in May."
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"An acting assistant stage manager in a theater in Canterbury, a rep theater. A small wage but just enough to get by on, and I made props and I walked on, and I changed scenery, and I realized that I just loved it."
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"Finally, I told them I'd drop out of the management program if they'd give me an entry-level job in the newsroom for union wages, about fifty dollars a week."
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"There are times when even the best manager is like the little boy with the big dog, waiting to see where the dog wants to go so he can take him there."
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"My manager and my agents, they go over my contracts."
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"When we'd suggested doing it, the Theatre Royal management had said, 'Nobody wants to see Waiting for Godot.' As it happened, every single ticket was booked for every single performance, and this confirmation that our judgment was right was sweet. Audiences came to us from all over the world. It was amazing."
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"Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away."
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"The only thing I believe is this: A player does not have to like a manager and he does not have to respect a manager. All he has to do is obey the rules."
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"But the manager's bought wisely - the players who've come in have taken us on to a different level and the players who won promotion have also performed at the top level, so long may it continue."
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"Most of my thoughts, you couldn't print."
Thought
"Do not buy the hype from Wall St. and the press that stocks always go up. There are long periods when stocks do nothing and other investments are better."
Nothing
"Bottoms in the investment world don't end with four-year lows; they end with 10- or 15-year lows."
Finance
"Get inside information from the president and you will probably lose half your money. If you get it from the chairman of the board, you will lose all of your money."
Money
"Index investing outperforms active management year after year."
Management
"I think this is also a great time to invest in private equity, helping companies grow from the ground up."
Time
"The price of a commodity will never go to zero. When you invest in commodities futures, you're not buying a piece of paper that says you own an intangible piece of company that can go bankrupt."
Finance
"Right now I own shares of companies in 28 countries."
Nation
"Historically, there has been a bull market in commodities every 20 or 30 years."
Finance
"You can no longer buy commodities at Merrill Lynch. My guess is many analysts and even executives are too young to know how profitable a hot commodities market can be. They will soon."
Will
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