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"It's true that I tend to daydream. I'm the same person in business as I am in music: I can be distracted and absentminded. It's my style."
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"We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass."
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"The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'"
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"Regarding quality, the following rule is very important: do each activity right at the first time with the aim of saving money and time. Regardless of the process under consideration, the activities that were carried out badly may cause repetitions with considerable additional costs."
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"The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production."
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"Consumers care less about your brand's vision statement, they want value delivered."
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"Great companies are formed by great people. It's not about attracting great people, it's about retaining them."
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"Business, to be successful, must be based on science, for demand and supply are matters of mathematics, not guesswork."
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"If you go out to Hollywood you'll find a lot of fantastic plastic people there in the business and a lot of people in life generally. They find it so hard to be themselves that they have to be plastic."
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"Going into business for yourself, becoming an entrepreneur, is the modern-day equivalent of pioneering on the old frontier."
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"I think I won't do for your business at all, but personally I have no fight with you. You can go on and save all the critics you can, but don't send them to me."
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"I've managed to dodge the curse. Not all my family have. Of course, music helped me - music is all about civilization, about something worthwhile. It's all about ideas."
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"It's true that I tend to daydream. I'm the same person in business as I am in music: I can be distracted and absentminded. It's my style."
Business
"I don't think events in your life affect your music."
Life
"When my opera Plump Jack was performed in 1989, my first piano teacher sent me something that I'd composed when I was four. I remember I played it, and it still sounded like me. I'm the same composer I was then."
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"I do not think that music keeps evolving. It evolved through Bach; since then, in my humble opinion, all the innovations added nothing."
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"I want to make the world better."
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"The Getty family has been fully supportive throughout this situation, and for that, I am very grateful."
Family
"My music is all about an idealistic human personality. I have 19th-century ideals."
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"My father was so much more than an accomplished businessman."
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"If you have more money than you need, you have to give it away. It's a duty. I get to choose whom to sponsor, and I like to give to the areas that I know something about."
Money
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