Fred DeLuca Quotes
Profit or perish... There are only two ways to make money: increase sales and decrease costs.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Actually William wasn't there for quite a bit of the time initially, he wasn't there for Freshers Week, so it did take a bit of time for us to get to know each other but we did become very close friends from quite early.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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I'm a paleoanthropologist, and my job is to define man's place in nature and explore what makes us human.
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I think punditry serves no purpose.
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Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances.
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It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.
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It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
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If you're not in it you can't win it.
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I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan.
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When I went to college, I discovered the Sega console, and 'Sonic the Hedgehog' became very dear to me.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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We do a lot of outbound work where we're talking about the future. As we get involved with these new products, it helps us have a platform to talk about where the future is going.
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The only routine with me is no routine at all.
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The quality of TV, I think, is at an all-time high. The problem with it is the way that we end up consuming it - generally a cable box. A satellite receiver is, to me, nothing more than a glorified VCR.
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Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
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For me, certain shots or scenes are keys in the movie.
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You've got to be closer to the edge than ever to win. That means sometimes you go over the edge, and I don't mean driving, either.
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Focus on solving real problems and not on making money. There will be enough takers for your solutions. You will help make lives of some people better, and money will follow.
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The fundamental glue that holds any relationship together is trust.
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The Yale group was doing the Harold. So by our senior year we were trying to do the Harold. Again, we had no idea what we were doing. We had one guy in the group who was pretty experimental; he would kind of push us to do weird things. It was really fun, a great experience.
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When I put Foster The People together, I just wanted to play music with friends.
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It was a terrible blow that was dealt when I was fired from 'Saturday Night Live', but I have to say that a few doors opened right away. Movie roles started to roll in, and pretty soon, I was over it.
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Profit or perish... There are only two ways to make money: increase sales and decrease costs.
