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"Eric Schmid explained that only one criterion that mattered when picking a job-fat growth. When companies grow quickly, there are more things to do than there are people to do them. When companies grow more slowly or stop growing, there is less to do and too many people to not be doing them. Politics and stagnation set in, and everyone falters, He told me, "If you're offered a seat on a rocket sip, you don't ask what seat. You just get on."
"Joblessness gives you time to grow."
"The biggest break in my career was getting into the Beatles in 1962. The second biggest break since then is getting out of them."
"I had brought up from Chile a contract agent whose cover was that of a newspaper publisher in Santiago, a young, very talented man, named Dave Phillips, who later on carved quite a career for himself in the agency."
"The game has basically not changed since I ended my career."
"I felt Brighton was a perfect ending to a really interesting career."
"Losing your job shows you the worth of your time rather the worth of money."
"I had given up the theater and everything propelled me into entertainment. And I didn't resist it."
"When at work, be diligent because there are many people who wish they had your job, but they couldn't since you are the one who got."
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"As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been able to withstand the rigorous test of stamina and physical exertion and have thus successfully extended their most remarkable careers over a period of many strenuous years."
"To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world."
"Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins."
"There will always be that dreadful monster prejudice to do extra battle against because of their color."
"I can hardly express in words my deep feeling and sympathy for them, knowing as I do, the many serious handicaps and obstacles that will confront them in almost every walk of life."
"I know that a good many champions have entertained the thought that the more they discourage youngsters, the longer they would reign. However, this theory never impressed me, and I always made it a point to give youths the benefit of my experience in bicycle racing."
"In closing I wish to say that while I was sorely beset by a number of white riders in my racing days, I have also enjoyed the friendship of countless thousands of white men whom I class as among my closest friends."
"The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results."
"An athlete must have ability to reach the top, but many who have ability and who do not live clean lives never have and never will be champions for obvious reasons."
"I would like to cite an instance which proves the efficacy of clean living on the part of an athlete coupled with the inspiration received from a champion which go a long way to making a champion."
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