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"Somebody's always getting me to come lecture to their writing class, and I don't talk about writing at all, I talk about the business of making a living at this racket."
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"The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business."
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"Business is the salt of life."
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"The most successful businesses have leaders that see the correlation between customer service and sales. not as separate departments, but as complimentary components for growth."
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"No secrecy, no business."
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"Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages."
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"The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit."
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"Being an entrepreneur is the greatest investment."
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"Make sure your business is creating a service experience so good that it demands loyalty."
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"It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way."
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"A business is an army; you are the general, and your subordinates are your troops. Victory is achieving your goals. Great victory is surpassing your goals."
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"I think it takes about a million words to make a writer. I mean that you're going to throw away."
Writing
"Write a lot. And finish what you write. Don't join writer's clubs and go sit around having coffee reading pieces of your manuscript to people. Write it. Finish it. I set those rules up years ago, and nothing's changed."
People
"You see, I used to do a certain amount of market research by going to the local drugstore and seeing what the truck drivers would put up. Now it's all just copies from the latest best-seller list and damn little of anything else."
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"You no longer have much in the way of knowing what to do in a big, epic novel about the future, because nobody knows what the hell is going to happen."
Future
"To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection."
Doubt
"In any ethical situation, the thing you want least to do is probably the right action."
Action
"Somebody's always getting me to come lecture to their writing class, and I don't talk about writing at all, I talk about the business of making a living at this racket."
Business
"We're basically after Joe's beer money, and Joe likes his beer, so you better make sure that what you give him is at least as pleasurable to him as having his six-pack of beer would be."
Money
"We do a hard fantasy as well as hard science fiction, and I think I probably single-handedly recreated military science fiction. It was dead before I started working in it."
Science
"And in down times it shakes a lot of the bad SF out, a lot the stuff that was bought for literary reasons, which is neither entertaining nor great literature."
Literature
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