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"Television is a powerful medium that has to be used for something better than sitcoms and police shows. On the other hand, if you don't recognize the forces that play on what people watch and what they don't then you're a fool and you should be in a different business."
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"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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"Business is the salt of life."
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"Marketing is safe. Sales is risky. UNLESS, marketing has done its job. Then sales is safe too."
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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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"The competition is out to get you. Are you a moving target or a sitting duck? Innovate or die."
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"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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"No secrecy, no business."
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"One of the towering people in this industry said, why don't you go and make a five-year contract with somebody, make yourself several million dollars and put it away, then go and do whatever you want, work for public TV if you want."
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"I don't think the news department will have to lie down and play dead like it has in the past. By and large the network has been understanding, but then so have I."
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"People also don't care about the daily comings and goings of diplomats and yet we must report it."
People
"Television is a powerful medium that has to be used for something better than sitcoms and police shows. On the other hand, if you don't recognize the forces that play on what people watch and what they don't then you're a fool and you should be in a different business."
Business
"The current wisdom now is that if the three networks are covering the news the same way the difference is the anchor people. I think that won't be true in the future."
Wisdom
"But unlike the setup in most organizations, where there's an administrator on top and creative people or doers underneath, I'm basically a doer and I like to have administrative people underneath me."
People
"I respect the game that goes on of putting this against that, but I don't respect, nor do I enjoy, an awful lot of the actual programs that go on the air."
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"I don't expect to win every battle but I think Fred Pierce has enough respect for me that I can go fight my battles and win my share."
Battle
"But if you cover the World Series on the news or do a feature on an Ali boxing match then all of a sudden ears go up all over the place and people say what the hell are you doing. The reason for that is that we're doing something that people are really interested in."
People
"I'm sensitive about my image of being hard to reach."
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