Harold S. Geneen Quotes
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I don't have proper places to run.
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I dropped out of the business for 8 years, and I taught English as a second language. Then I decided to go back to acting, and I got 'Mad Men'.
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I no longer run barefoot.
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In the back of my mind, I can never forget this could be gone tomorrow - and at this point I think the odds are against me... the chances of succeeding in this business are slim to none; there's only a handful of people that have long careers. You have to put in the work, you can never be satisfied, never take it for granted.
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Where issues used to be, say, parochial or local in Ireland or England and so forth, all politics is global now because all business is global.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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One of my personal plights in this business is about playing 'The Sassy Black Girl.'
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We are in the business of gathering the news. We're not in the business of talking about the news.
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At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.
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I feel very strongly that you shouldn't mix your emotions with business. When it comes to my emotions, I certainly don't mix them with my business.
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Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business.
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Most of my books begin with a nap on my couch here, when I dream up characters and story lines, and then I write on my laptop in the recliner and handle the business side of email at my desk, which is sagging in the middle - maybe from so many words?
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I work in the film business, where schmoozing is an art form, lunch hour lasts from 12:30 until 3, and every meeting takes an hour whether there's an hour's worth of business or not.
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There's show and there's business. Business is a whole other beat.
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When I get up, I have a cup of coffee, surf the Internet, then do a half-hour run.
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Many, many, many small moves of many kinds can bring a way to manage change. The theory can come later.
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Whaling was the oil business of its day.
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Touring is really a pretty lonely business.
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I made the best business decision at 14 when I decided to get into acting. The worst was owning 2 homes at the same time.
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We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.
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Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!
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Having witnessed the success of Acadian Ambulance firsthand over the years, I became a champion for the employee stock ownership plan business model. This was easy to do based on the evidence that employee stock ownership plans are reliable, high-performing sources of retirement security.
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The Taiwanese are big on tea. I think it's nice to slow down a bit. It's very much a custom.
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You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.
