Douglas Conant Quotes

The packaged food business environment is very Darwinian. You're fighting for survival every year; you evolve and grow or you die. It's really that simple.

Douglas Conant

• Business
• Food
• Die
• Simple
• Fighting
• Environment
• Survival

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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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• My plans are not to open a restaurant, but what I would like to do is open a kitchen somewhere in D.C. proper and have a chef's table where people can come and taste my food without having to have a catered event.

  

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• To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.

  

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• Basically hated everything made in the '80s, music television - it was really about the '90s for me. 'Encino Man' was a big hit. 'Robin Hood: Men in Tights.'

  

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• In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the world.

  

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• I'm just a simple Jewish boy from the Bronx.

  

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• I've done fine in this business, but I've never made quite enough money to have a family or have many options.

  

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• What other people think of me is none of my business.

  

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• Food can change anything.

  

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  • Food
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• Many young adults I have communicated with - both in-person and over email - constantly apologize before stating their idea, or finish each sentence with a question. Unfortunately, doing so in business puts you at an immediate disadvantage with your boss and work colleagues.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Work
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• Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.

  

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• People need to take a breath and remember that it's only fashion. Relax. No one's going to die.

  

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  • People
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• I like to come into my workspace and feel it's a living environment and not frozen, which is why I often change or add to the pictures on the wall.

  

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  • Why
  • Change
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• I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

  

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  • Simple
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  • Humility

• I've been giving back since I was a teen, handing out turkeys at Thanksgiving and handing out toys at toys drives for Christmas. It's very important to give back as a youth. It's as simple as helping an old lady across the street or giving up your seat on the bus for someone who is pregnant.

  

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• PepsiCo is a $63 billion company. Half the company is snacks, and half the company is beverages. We have a glorious snacks business and a glorious beverage business. We are extremely profitable. We are growing.

  

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• If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

  

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• The planet doesn't require saving, and actually hasn't asked Greenpeace to save it.

  

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  • Save
  • Actually

• If you increase the number of rockets you build and you buy, then it's the scale of the economy, the price is going to come down. It may not come down in order of magnitude, but if several commercial ventures start being successful and there becomes a bigger market for these rockets, the price will naturally come down a bit. That's why I think Excalibur Almaz, we're a little bit unique in that we don't look at our so-called competition with disdain, we want them to succeed and it needs to have more than one player. Even if we are successful, we couldn't handle the entire market ourselves.

  

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• Good luck is a residue of preparation.

  

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  • Good
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  • Preparation

• When 'Deadwood' came along, it was totally like Shakespeare. The long speeches were like soliloquies. If one phrase of a monologue was out of whack, the entire one-page speech didn't work.

  

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• A lot of times, real life is more surreal than writing.

  

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  • Life
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• The packaged food business environment is very Darwinian. You're fighting for survival every year; you evolve and grow or you die. It's really that simple.

  

  Douglas Conant
  • Business
  • Food
  • Die