Blake Mycoskie Quotes
Giving does not just feel good, but it's really, really good for business, and it's good for your personal brand.
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I think that a lot of guys reach for electronics first, but the truth is that you can never keep up with electronics. You buy a flat-screen TV, and then six months later, there's one that has 3D and Blu-ray and all this business, and that is just going to keep continuing.
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I had parents in the business and they made sure that the art was the biggest concern.
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Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term.
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Adam Sandler is a remarkable movie brand.
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I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of.
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I was given the opportunity to run a business, but on that very same day, I understood that it comes with a lot of responsibility, and responsibility comes at a price.
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You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.
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What kind of business world are we living in?
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You know, I lose patience really easily; I'd rather shop in the grocery store than in the department store. I can pick an apple like nobody's business.
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One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
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L.A. has always had a ton of creative business people, but tech has always been trumped by Hollywood. Now Hollywood is realizing it needs to be smarter in tech. Hollywood is finally crossing over, and it's really going to charge L.A. to be the next tech center.
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I may quit the music business someday, but never the music.
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My dad is like a cactus - introverted and tough. I'm a people person, like my mom, but I got my competitiveness from my dad. He came to this country from Belarus with nothing and built a real business. He's my hero for giving me that need to run a business and for having enormous confidence in me.
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Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life.
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Franklin was the best known of the Founding Fathers. His death could not go without some sort of official notice. The House of Representatives, after listening to a brief tribute by James Madison, voted to wear badges of mourning for two months and then got on with business.
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War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist.
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I'm a businessman. I work for business people. The kind of thing they say is: Now we've sold a lot of records, let's sell some more.
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There is a difference between hiring a CEO and turning over control of the business.
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The fact is that at different stages of your life, and under the influence of different inspirations, you write different things. The point is not necessarily to find your voice, which grinds out the same sort of thing again and again, but to find a vehicle for people who are far more important than the author: the characters.
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Nothing is more diminishing than trying to control success or hold on to things.
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I could learn how to press 'Record' on a tape recorder and write for a newspaper or a magazine.
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People believe that if you can shut your Tourette's off for a period of time, then you can always shut it off. I try to explain to people that if I spent my whole life trying to control my tics, that's all I would have time for.
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We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.
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Giving does not just feel good, but it's really, really good for business, and it's good for your personal brand.
