Brad Stone Quotes
There are lots of lessons to learn from Amazon. Never stop innovating or questioning the fundamentals of your business. Disrupt yourself before others do. Continually motivate employees so that they never get too complacent - see Yahoo, AOL and many other Internet companies for evidence of what happens when they do.
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A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.
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I've raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little.
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I do make a good ragu pasta, which everyone seems to like. Or that could be just me talking; who knows what they really think. I actually stole the recipe from my older sister Vera, who also loves to cook. I took all my recipes from her.
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A woman who places a high priority on performance and excellence is seen as imperial. A man is seen as demanding and tough.
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Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.
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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
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I think there was a time when I considered myself a work addict, but that's no longer accurate. My life has changed so dramatically over the last number of years, especially having a family now. My priorities have shifted.
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Custom is second nature.
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'Dhruva' will have them glued to their seats throughout, and I'm sure of that.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
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If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
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When I hear theists and atheists pontificating on how they know God does or does not exist, I can only smile at the irrationality and, yes, vanity of the notion.
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I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.
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It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at some point.
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Most of the competition was into bulk popcorn because of the major increases in the Drive-In Theatre Outlets.
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I fought well at 155, but I don't think I ever came close to my best at 155. I think I'll get to my best at 170 pounds.
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The struggle is so great that the triumph over fascism alone is worth the sacrifice of our lives.
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I know when you're in the business of cover sports, you look for 60-minute games and a result. It's never that simple.
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The easy way to make money is to get special political privilege. From the beginning of time, business has cozied up to government and gotten restrictions on competition and subsidies and stuff.
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I have several writer friends, but I don't involve them in my work process. I'm more likely to talk about the business of publishing with them.
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I had accidentally gotten a laugh on a line in a play I was in during high school. I got hooked, but I had no idea I would ever be able to support myself by acting. I knew no one in the business. I was from the Midwest. No one within a radius of a thousand miles was doing anything like that.
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So, there's like one luxury you take and since we do that, y'know, you're involved with people in suits; business people all the time. But hey, if I sit down on a bar and they leave, good for me.
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There are lots of lessons to learn from Amazon. Never stop innovating or questioning the fundamentals of your business. Disrupt yourself before others do. Continually motivate employees so that they never get too complacent - see Yahoo, AOL and many other Internet companies for evidence of what happens when they do.
