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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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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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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The Small Business Lending Fund was cleverly named by its authors last Congress. Since its implementation, however, it would appear a more appropriate name would be the Bailed Out Bank Refinancing Fund.
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The fact is that America has been at her most prosperous when government and the private sector have been not at war, but in a wary, if often underplayed, alliance. History is unmistakable on this point.
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A kiss is a secret told to the mouth instead of the ear; kisses are the messengers of love and tenderness.
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Bad reasoning as well as good reasoning is possible; and this fact is the foundation of the practical side of logic.
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You may have done 20 great shows in a row and come to one, and it doesn't work. You never presume anything.
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Due to my sometimes erratic behavior, my children tried very hard to avoid me and not do anything to set me off.
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You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.
