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Bob Balaban

"My dad was born in Chicago in 1908... his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a little tiny grocery store with eight or nine children - in the backroom all together - and my grandmother got the idea to go into the movie business."

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"The ultimate profit of all businesses should be happiness."

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"16th century advertisements cannot market 21st century products. Look for what is necessary at the present moment."

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"If you have ever experienced this type of unprofessional treatment, I doubt you would even consider giving them business in the future. Interrupting, ignoring, patronizing, or antagonizing a customer is like pouring gas on a fire and creates a more explosive situation than the original complaint. Still, it continues to happen every day, costing companies millions in lost revenue."

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"My grandfather had a paint store. It's what put my mom through college. Small business is part of my family history."

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"Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail."

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"For official record, if become bankrupt old retail distribution centers-labeled supermega, so-enlarged foodstuff market- later reincarnate to become worship shrine. First sell food-stuff, next then same structure sell battered furnitures, next now born as gymnasium club, next broker flea markets, only at final end of life...sell religions."

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"Agile does not mean laissez-faire, flexibility and freedom are based on the well-defined principles."

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"Redundancy is my favourite business strategy."

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"In the business people with expertise, experience and evidence will make more profitable decisions than people with instinct, intuition and imagination."

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"Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves."

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Bob Balaban
"My family was loving... they were very supportive and very affectionate, and basically I could do what I wanted, and basically it wasn't anything dangerous, thank God."

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Bob Balaban
"I was born on Wellington Avenue and my family that remains lives in the Lake Shore Drive area."

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Bob Balaban
"My dad was born in Chicago in 1908... his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a little tiny grocery store with eight or nine children - in the backroom all together - and my grandmother got the idea to go into the movie business."

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Bob Balaban
"I always think that a director who knows about the technical side, but cares about the acting performances and casting as well, is ahead of the game."

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Bob Balaban
"I have a 92 year old father whose doing beautifully who lives in Chicago and a sister and a nephew and a niece and I love coming back and try to do so fairly often."

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Bob Balaban
"I was very much in my room with my marionette stage, you know, creating these incredibly boring things that I felt were so fascinating, and forcing my relatives to come, and charging money for them to see my little productions."

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Bob Balaban
"But obviously as television began, it so undercut movies that he was trying to think of a way to combine seeing these special things, and the fact that people were just captivated by the magic box."

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Bob Balaban
"My dad was the baby. When he was born they were already successful. They sent him to business school - he probably would have loved to have been a poet or a writer or something, and he was very creative."

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Bob Balaban
"Oh, I was completely hooked on movies and plays and theater from the time I was a day old - I was very, very early on in love with movies and I loved plays."

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Bob Balaban
"God, I'd love to do a big commercial movie that made a lot of money and whose plot was interesting too."

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