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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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"The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business."
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Personal Development
"Business is the salt of life."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages."
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"The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit."
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"Being an entrepreneur is the greatest investment."
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"Make sure your business is creating a service experience so good that it demands loyalty."
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"It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way."
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"A business is an army; you are the general, and your subordinates are your troops. Victory is achieving your goals. Great victory is surpassing your goals."
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"I've had every advantage in the world, despite the 18 years of silence which were nobody's fault but mine."
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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
"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 don't think events in your life affect your music."
Life
"I do not think that music keeps evolving. It evolved through Bach; since then, in my humble opinion, all the innovations added nothing."
Music
"Either your understanding of the meaning of music is there from the beginning or it is not."
Music
"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."
Family
"My music is all about an idealistic human personality. I have 19th-century ideals."
Music
"The Getty family has been fully supportive throughout this situation, and for that, I am very grateful."
Family
"I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of her poems and immediately began composing in my head. I wrote down the melodies even before I got to a piano."
Poetry
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