Harold S. Geneen Quotes
Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away.
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People like me were supposed to be into exclusivity, unapproachable. That's what I hate most. I think it's very demode.
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I like to prove people wrong.
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The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.
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Basically, I'm a musical vocalist, but I do voiceover stuff as a sideline, like plumbing or something.
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Nobody is gonna love you like you. You're gonna be your best salesman.
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You're going to see this 'Internet of things' start demanding network performance and making the networks much more aware of what is on top of them.
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I like risky stuff.
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For every person that doesn't like you, there's gonna be somebody who does.
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I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.
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My wife had taken off on a plane. Two airplanes had crashed into the World Trade Center. I, of course, like any other person, felt potentially devastated, panicky a little bit.
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If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.
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Having been raised by actors who love moral ambiguity and flawed protagonists, I feel like it's sort of in the blood to want to take it on.
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I would like to write a movie and, if it wasn't too crazy, also direct.
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I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.
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The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.
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Songwriter friends will be like, 'Oh my God, when are you going to put out 'Love Triangle?'' It's just been that song for me that really helped me get a lot of writing sessions and helped jump-start my writing career.
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Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.
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I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing.
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Bofors was a steelmaker that became a forgings company and then went on to build guns. Companies like Krupp and Thyssen were in steel and forgings before entering defence. There are similar examples in the U.K.; it is a natural progression.
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I used the best technique that I knew to protect my files.
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The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.
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My iPod will shuffle from rap to pop to rock to classical ... It gets confusing!
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If they don't want to pay for it, they can stop drinking it.
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Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away.
