John Caudwell Quotes
Those of us who have yet to find philanthropy may find there is a far greater reward from it than from wealth creation.
Quotes to Explore
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Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.
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My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
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Inside, I've got a real purist desire and dream about the music. I like the idea of being able to carve out a kind of magical, colourful, artistic, inspirational life. And the reality just turns out to be quite different, working with the business to bring this thing you have created into the world.
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Let your emotions come out. If your behavior is flat, your game will be flat, too.
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I don't start with a list of historical scenes that I want to include in the book. At a certain point, the narrative totally takes over, and everything that I include I can only incorporate if it answers to the internal terms of the novel.
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
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It will be a difficult couple of days. It's difficult now and it will be difficult tomorrow.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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I kept writing all these ballads; they're me speaking about life. But how am I gonna do the live show I wanna do if I don't have something I can dance to?
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The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
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Unfortunately, music devolved instead of evolved. The music business got into the hands of lawyers and accountants rather than the entrepreneurial creative people, and that's when the beginning of the end started. It's all based on money instead of art and creativity.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.
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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
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Rates of black poverty have decreased. Black teen-pregnancy rates are at record lows - and the gap between black and white teen-pregnancy rates has shrunk significantly. But such progress rests on a shaky foundation, and fault lines are everywhere.
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Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.
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We had a tiny budget for 'The Greatest,' which was the opposite of 'Wall Street.' We just kind of went in and did it. You've got four or five takes and then you've got to move on. We didn't even have trailers to stay in or anything.
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I think very few people still understand the distinction between CEOs on Wall Street and the hedge-fund billionaires operating separately.
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I love soldiers. They are my kids, they are my children.
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The half-life of companies is shrinking. So in the same ease in which you can start a company today to disrupt an incumbent, you have to also realize that somebody will do that to you as well just as easily. So if you're not just going to get on top but stay on top, that will require a real prepared mind across many companies.
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For me the most interesting characters are outwardly static, but inwardly charged by an overriding passion.
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Those of us who have yet to find philanthropy may find there is a far greater reward from it than from wealth creation.
