Chip Conley Quotes
Great leaders help their people see how they can directly impact the company's objectives and their own personal goals.
Quotes to Explore
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In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me.
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Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
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You see, O Greeks! The enemy already acknowledge the country to be ours; for when they made peace with us, they stipulated that we should not burn the country belonging to the king, and now they set fire to it themselves, as if they looked upon it no longer as their own.
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I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.
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My wife, Caroline Spector, and I pitched some comic ideas to various publishers back in the '80s, but nothing ever came of it.
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Once the kids are in school, it's amazing what you can do.
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The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.
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It has not been easy to wake up every single day at 6:30 in the morning to then head to the gym and start a full day of work. But you have to have that kind of dedication if you want to achieve the goals you have set for yourself.
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The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.
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I can't tell you how many times I've been writing and then found myself seven clicks deep into a Wikipedia entry that I don't even care about. Self-distraction appears to be my version of sleepwalking.
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Finally we are a nation with some conscience. It means alliances are extremely important when they're based on a national interest. We have to have the ability to sustain our presence within those alliances.
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The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
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I've always been drawn to the idea that small choices in our lives could have drastic effects on our future.
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From the moment I walked into the White House, it was as if I had no privacy at all.
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I now have two different audiences. There's the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting.
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Hebrew is my first language, so it's really the most personal and the most simple. When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.
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There wasn't so many ISSUES like there are today. It was a simpler time.
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There are several peculiarities that I share with children which, like having no front teeth, are perhaps more acceptable in the very young, but which, for better or worse, seem to be a part of my makeup.
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If I was a state, I would like to see education left to the schools themselves, but I don't want the federal government involved in education. I think that it ends up setting standards that cost you time and money and don't make any difference in education. I want to stop that.
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If you hunger for certain types of clothes, for which you have little use, put yourself on a diet. Just as you resist too much whipped cream and French pastry to keep your figure in shape, you can say no to those yearned-for but unneeded purchases that lead to a wardrobe that is shapeless and without form.
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Certain readers resented me when they could no longer recognize their territory, their institution.
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Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.
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A lot of people are upset that I'm not working. They say it's a disgrace.
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Great leaders help their people see how they can directly impact the company's objectives and their own personal goals.
