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Billy Eckstine

"I was so enamored with the idea of being in show business so everything was bright to me. I mean, I didn't think of it as being tough and things like that."

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"I was so enamored with the idea of being in show business so everything was bright to me. I mean, I didn't think of it as being tough and things like that."

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Donna Grant

"The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business."

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"In the business always talk to decision makers only, it will save your time and will get you the deal."

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Donna Grant

"Business is the salt of life."

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Donna Grant

"Marketing is safe. Sales is risky. UNLESS, marketing has done its job. Then sales is safe too."

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"To me everything in business boils down to this: do you genuinely care about your customers - or just their cash?"

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"The nonessential employees, the type of workers whom remain at home when it snows, are the quickest to complain about how the talented persons of an organization behave."

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Donna Grant

"The competition is out to get you. Are you a moving target or a sitting duck? Innovate or die."

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Donna Grant

"One of the biggest secrets of success is delegation. Exactly the method Sir Richard Branson uses! If it helped him become a billionaire businessman then it is worth utilizing in your own life/business, etc."

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"A fair price for oil is whatever you can get plus ten to twenty per cent."

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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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Billy Eckstine
"If you want to be a doctor, a lawyer you must go to college. But if you want to be a musician or such, study your craft. Study music."

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Billy Eckstine
"I knew exactly what I was, and there was no hang-up with me. None whatsoever. The fact that the pigment of my skin maybe being lighter brown than other people of my race, maybe some of them, but you know our race has all colors."

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Billy Eckstine
"I'm a firm believer and I think my religion is inside."

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Billy Eckstine
"I think a song that's got something to say. I'm not much on gimmicks. I never have been because they don't last. But I like a song that tells a story and has some meat to it, you know, that means something."

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Billy Eckstine
"You can't sing about love unless you know about it."

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Billy Eckstine
"You know, times change and the elements change along with it. The elements of success. And my son's very successful. He's doing very well. And I have a younger daughter who sings."

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Billy Eckstine
"When you're playing music, say for instance, you're playing a part of the band and you're looking at your music, your horn is down into the stand. This way, it's up and it goes right on out to the audience, you know?"

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Billy Eckstine
"My youngest daughter sings. She's going to be very good. She's graduated from Music School and she's been working down around and getting her feet wet, you know. I had her out with me for a year just showing her the ropes a little bit, but she's going to be all right."

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Billy Eckstine
"Today the kids that are out now they make a hit record and they put them right out on the stage with 10,000 people out there and they don't know anything about the business yet."

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Billy Eckstine
"It was my band. I organized the band and Dizzy was in the band. Dizzy was the first musical director with the band. Charlie Parker was in the band. But, no, no, that was my band."

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