Jimmy Iovine Quotes
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I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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The biggest challenge we all face is to learn about ourselves and to understand our strengths and weaknesses. We need to utilize our strengths, but not so much that we don't work on our weaknesses.
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When I was in college, I studied business because I thought I wanted to be a director and producer.
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I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.
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I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
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By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses.
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Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
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I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war.
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I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.
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One thing I've tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.
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The more desperate you are, the more mistakes you make.
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Our duty was to try and find the Japanese fleet. We never did find the Japanese fleet and I am awfully glad, because they had attacked us there with six carriers, three battleships, 10 or 15 cruisers, and about 20 destroyers.
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I would be lying if I told you that I hadn't had aspirations to run for a statewide office.
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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.
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Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling – I can so well remember it. There was always something more – behind and beyond everything – to me, the golden spectacles were very, very big.
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Life certainly points it out to you - 'you can go this way or the other way.' You have to decide and it's a very strong decision because, would you sleep well knowing that you're living in the best place, but you're letting the place where you should live alone?
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The evolution of technology is, like the evolution of literature, heavily path-dependent. Culture plays a far more important role in the acceptance, adoption, and spread of technology than many of us are willing to acknowledge.
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I always made up my own acts; built them out of my knowledge and observation of real life. I'd had wonderful opportunities to study people; and every time I went out on the stage I tried to show the audience some bit of true human nature.
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Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.
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I would rather not have contentious interviews. I'd rather do 30 minutes with Charlie Rose, laid back in a La-Z-Boy chair.
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That's how I grew up - it wasn't cool to not have a good system.
