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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Gods always behave like the people who make them.
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Hush,-for the halo of calmness is spreadingOver my spirit as mild as a dove;Hush,-for the angel of comfort is sheddingOver my body his vial of love;Hush,-for new slumbers are over me stealing,Thus would I court them again and again,Hush,-for my heart is intoxicate,-reelingIn the swift waltz of my beautiful brain!
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You think in a different way when you don't have any money. The joy of poverty is that you use your imagination to come up with stuff.
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Believe me, I understand that most higher rate taxpayers are not the super-rich.
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Good PR educates people; that's all it is. You can't con people in this business. The products speak for themselves.
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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.
