John C. Malone Quotes

Synergy is the driver. There are two levels of synergy: there are operating synergies, which, you know, you'd have to be stupid not to try to take advantage of, and then there are strategic synergies. In other words, in what positions you would be more sustainable, more long term, and so on.

John C. Malone

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• When it comes to setting the market values, I let that stuff take care of itself. I know my value in this league, and I know the team appreciates me. I'm going to continue to make myself an indispensable part of this roster. When you do that, when your time comes up to get a contract, you usually get a contract extension.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Up
  • Time
  • Team

• I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Want

• China has the best opportunities. A domestic market with 1.3bn people will help create more Fortune 500 retailers.

  

  Zhang Jindong
  • People
  • Help
  • Best

• Karaoke is something that's near and dear and very close to my heart. I was a karaoke host when I was working my way through university. I was a full-time student and karaoke was my night job.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Job

• I started as an actor. I started directing because Steppenwolf needed another strong director.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Strong
  • Actor
  • Director

• I managed to slip two children out in the middle of my career and have been lucky with all the work.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Work
  • Children
  • Career

• I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • New
  • New York
  • Driver

• I have some girls who I look back on and I think, 'Wow, they were really horrible to me.' I would love an apology from a few girls, but whatever. I'm not holding any grudges. I'm over it.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Think
  • Girls
  • Horrible

• Sometimes I'm happy - you can tell via Twitter. Sometimes I'm pissed off - you can tell via Twitter. I just think, at the end of the day, I don't want them to see me as a celebrity; I just want them to see me and say, 'He's like a regular person at his job right now who's mad.'

  

  Wale
  • Job
  • Happy
  • Day

• I prefer to believe it's my responsibility if a film of mine works or doesn't work.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Responsibility

• If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Writing
  • Moving
  • Moving Forward

• My touchstone for every question is the Constitution.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Question
  • Constitution

• No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.

  

  Dana Boente
  • Law
  • Person
  • Above

• My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Dad
  • College
  • Paid

• Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Me
  • Crazy
  • Makes

• I would like to do a period piece. I think that would be fun.

  

  Beau Mirchoff
  • Fun
  • Think
  • Like

• I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.

  

  Patrick Wang
  • Time
  • Find
  • Strange

• Afghanistan is a land-locked country.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Country
  • Afghanistan

• The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.

  

  Edward Abbey

• I'd experimented with so many different types of music. I had these folky songs I'd written and recorded, but something wasn't quite right.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Music
  • Different
  • Something

• A lot of technological capital has to be absorbed person-to-person, and that happens more quickly if countries are economically integrated.

  

  Edward C. Prescott

• Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

  

  Carol Burnett
  • Life
  • Change

• Nine times out of ten, I'm trying to meet someone else's expectations, whether it's the director or the writer or the animator, when I go back in to re-record a line. I'm the icing on the cake, but the cake is the thing. I'm really just a hood ornament on a very solid vehicle.

  

  Adrian Pasdar Band from TV
  • Trying
  • Expectations
  • Hood

• Synergy is the driver. There are two levels of synergy: there are operating synergies, which, you know, you'd have to be stupid not to try to take advantage of, and then there are strategic synergies. In other words, in what positions you would be more sustainable, more long term, and so on.

  

  John C. Malone
  • Long
  • Trying
  • Change