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"The ultimate profit of all businesses should be happiness."
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"16th century advertisements cannot market 21st century products. Look for what is necessary at the present moment."
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"If you have ever experienced this type of unprofessional treatment, I doubt you would even consider giving them business in the future. Interrupting, ignoring, patronizing, or antagonizing a customer is like pouring gas on a fire and creates a more explosive situation than the original complaint. Still, it continues to happen every day, costing companies millions in lost revenue."
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"But my sense in talking to people when I travel is that the film business is not that dissimilar from a lot of other businesses."
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"My grandfather had a paint store. It's what put my mom through college. Small business is part of my family history."
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"All those years we'd spent learning these chops, and all those gigs in Germany where you'd play all night, and along comes punk. It has nothing to do with that. A lot of people went out of business."
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"When you're five years old, and you're running a business that people did not think there was room for, getting attention is not a bad thing. Letting it be known by whatever colorful language is necessary is not a bad thing."
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"It's really impossible to project ahead even six months in this business."
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"Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail."
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"For policy makers interested in using tax policy to stimulate investments or especially to smooth business cycle fluctuations, the results are not promising."
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"Sharing a triumph with someone you love is an incredible high."
Love

"That first writing session, what Dan Hill calls a creative blind date, is always a real challenge, and you bring that back to your partner when you return to writing with them."
Blind

"She could only write with him at night and she was wasting her days just sitting around. So he thought I could write with her during the day. And that was Carole King."
Thought

"My nature is to be linear, and when I'm not, I feel really proud of myself."
Nature

"Actually I was writing with people that didn't get records."
People

"The business today is completely different and it's very producer driven, so that a songwriter needs to have producing chops, be a singer/songwriter, or find a singer to develop."
Business

"Barry and I were in the middle of building a house, and I was in the midst of having a nervous breakdown, because that's what you do when you build a house."
Building

"The main reason he wanted to be a recording artist was because it gives you much more freedom in your writing. You only have to please the artist and the artist is you so you can be more daring and experimental."
Artist

"That's what it is every time you walk into the room to write with someone new. It's like, oh god I have to take my clothes off 'my creative clothes' and let them see all of my flaws."
Time

"But I'm someone who the more afraid I am, the more I want to do it to get the fear over with."
Fear
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