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"I'm in this business for too long to be halfhearted about anything."
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Personal Development
"We prefer to be around others who bring out the best in us and make us feel good, don't we? Customers want to do business with people who make them feel valued, appreciated, and happy."
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Personal Development
"You want to build a big business? Start with your character."
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Personal Development
"There's another way we are getting behind business - by sorting out the banks. Taxpayers bailed you out. Now it's time for you to repay the favour and start lending to Britain's small businesses."
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Personal Development
"If you can't fire your best friend or your brother, don't hire them."
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Personal Development
"Project your "brand to be remarkable and memorable. Whether through a positioning statement, product placement, advertising campaign, service, a logo, mission, or message, your brand is what makes you and/or your company remarkable-or not."
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Personal Development
"They call it "business" because it does not become successful by a person's "idleness". Go get busy if you want to do business; but be busy for the right reasons!"
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Personal Development
"If anyone rises to power, it's not only because he could, but also because the stars were aligned in his favor. Many with apparent means to take it failed simply because they weren't destined for the honor."
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Personal Development
"Apple's market share is bigger than BMW's or Mercedes's or Porsche's in the automotive market. What's wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?"
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Personal Development
"I figure anything over 13 weeks in this business is pretty good."
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Personal Development
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"The biggest danger of Hollywood becoming a purely corporate town resides in the creative process."
Business
"Study the public behavior of top stars and you can detect a keen attentiveness to brand value."
Behavior
"A green-light meeting is when the decision is made finally whether or not to make a given picture."
Decision-Making
"The major media companies are significantly reducing their financial commitment to the motion picture sector."
Finance
"The green-light decision process today consists of maybe of 30 or 40 people."
People
"One of Brando's problems is that he can't have a conversation with anyone."
Conversation
"That's how you get surprises, because what movies are all about is surprises."
Movies
"It's only in relatively recent years that Hollywood became the playground of multinational corporations which regard movies and TV shows as a minor irritant to their overall activity."
Movies
"The green-light meeting, when I first started at Paramount, would consist of maybe three or four of us in a room. Perhaps two or three of us would have read the script under discussion."
Business
"It really hasn't been demonstrated at any level by any major corporation that it can nurture what is euphemistically called creativity."
Creativity
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