Jerry Greenfield Quotes
The reality is that most companies are not about any values at all - they are about making money. It is extremely rare for a business to stand for anything because most businesses don't want to alienate potential customers, and if you believe in anything you are going to alienate someone.
Quotes to Explore
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I can improve it a little bit. But it's my head, it's the way I am. So at the end of the day, I will be who I am and I will win how much I can win.
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I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'
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I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really, you know, spoke to me, as new ground but also familiar ground.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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I just sing the songs that people don't expect you to sing, because I just love having fun at karaoke and I'm always a bit nervous to sing something serious.
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It was very hard for me to practice and enjoy my tennis, and I didn't know the why, so I worked with psychologists to try and see what was happening. They pushed me really hard.
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There is always space for improvement, no matter how long you've been in the business.
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Critics haven't taught me my cricket, and they don't know what my body and mind are up to.
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Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
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A lot of times, losing a fight is tough. In your darkest hours, I guess your true colors show.
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While I now own more guns than the 82nd Airborne, my first gun is still the most important gun I've ever owned.
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I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.
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World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together - which is great.
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When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
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My first Top of the Pops I didn't want to do. I was terrified. I'd never done television before. Seeing the video afterwards was like watching myself die.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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I have been celibate for about six or seven months, I think. I would rather just make out and kiss someone instead of sex. I'm single. I said I would be single for a year and I am.
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Man takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes its law from the Tao. The law of the Tao is its being what it is.
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Hatin' and I know they got a reason why. I ain't gotta wonder if I wanna lease or buy.
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I never thought that I would have to play an Indian, well half French, but an Indian woman in my life.
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Rudy Giuliani's first wife was his cousin. Did you know this? I think that's a very cheap way to go after the Southern vote.
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In fact, the answer to the question "What is mathematics?" has changed several times during the course of history... It was only in the last twenty years or so that a definition of mathematics emerged on which most mathematicians agree: mathematics is the science of patterns.
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The reality is that most companies are not about any values at all - they are about making money. It is extremely rare for a business to stand for anything because most businesses don't want to alienate potential customers, and if you believe in anything you are going to alienate someone.
