John Caudwell Quotes
I'm in the lucky position that I can help a huge amount of people. It's a great privilege and freedom to have.
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Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
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Many leaders of big organizations, I think, don't believe that change is possible. But if you look at history, things do change, and if your business is static, you're likely to have issues.
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No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.
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Your best ideas, those eureka moments that turn the world upside down, seldom come when you're juggling emails, rushing to meet the 5 P.M. deadline or straining to make your voice heard in a high-stress meeting. They come when you're walking the dog, soaking in the bath or swinging in a hammock.
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I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated.
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When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.
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In my own life, I believe it was an early education in poetical metaphor that helped me to grapple with and make sense of all the difficult and traumatic things that were to come.
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In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'
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It's unacceptable to just sit on the couch and say I'm not doing anything. You've got to get out and do everything you can.
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I've set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling.
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For the Negro, Andrew Johnson did less than nothing when once he realized that the chief beneficiary of labor and economic reform in the South would be freedmen. His inability to picture Negroes as men made him oppose efforts to give them land; oppose national efforts to educate them; and above all things, oppose their rights to vote.
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A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.
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I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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Don't try to dress like me or wear your hair like mine. Find your own style.
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Well, you know, Thomas Jefferson, who was the author of the Declaration of Independence said he wouldn't have any atheists in his cabinet because atheists wouldn't swear an oath to God. That was Jefferson and we have never had any Muslims in the cabinet.
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The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.
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The starting point of all great jazz has got to be format, a language that you can work within that, in some ways, is much tighter than the blues or even gospel. It's all working towards the same destination - the difference being that Miles Davis flew there, and I'm still taking the subway.
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I'm moved by people who see the world differently than others. People who see the world with a longing for its poetry often can be broken people.
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In social media, people cannot build big followings organically unless what they are putting out to the world has value.
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I've been one of those people that hold on to a little bit more stress than others. People take certain situations a little bit differently.
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Difficult times require difficult decisions. But supporting this bill shouldn't be a difficult decision.
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I'm in the lucky position that I can help a huge amount of people. It's a great privilege and freedom to have.
