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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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.
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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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I realised I had to work in something creative, but with a business and global element. And that I had to do it while I was still young and had an appetite for risk.
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Physically there is a difference. He dropped a significant amount of weight, some where between 10 and 15 pounds. The biggest thing, he has a lot of stamina and can run deep routes down the field all day at top speed. He is not getting tired. He has become a huge player not only down the field, but as a possession receiver. You have seen him do some great things after catching short passes.
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Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.
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There's never a perfect bipartisan bill in the eyes of a partisan.
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Whenever you have an ex, and they're like, 'I hope we can still be friends!' and you weren't friends before you started dating, then what do you go back to, really?
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You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.
