George Grosz Quotes
The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the personage, the greater the profit.
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You know once you get in the business you know what you're getting into.
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Where issues used to be, say, parochial or local in Ireland or England and so forth, all politics is global now because all business is global.
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Our teachers are operating just as effective leaders in the business world do. They set a vision that most people think is crazy. They convince the kids why it's important to accomplish the goal. And they are totally relentless.
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You may grow very quickly the first two years and then watch the business decline, unless you really start selling product at any price range with various degrees of quality.
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Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.
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Today, people idolize athletes and celebrities - and yes, highly successful and visionary business people like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, but not the innovators who perhaps have not seen such high-flying levels of success. Can anyone name the inventors of GPS, which has such a huge impact on our lives today?
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You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.
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I can't understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business.
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Writing blurbs for books means you have to read the book, and it cuts into the business of bookselling. So every time I get a blurb from a bookseller, I try to write a thank you note.
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One thing that did get me into a lot of different types of music was when I was very young, the local record store went out of business and they were selling off all the vinyl. I remember going in – I was probably 16 or 17 and I'd just gotten a record player as a present. It was like hitting the jackpot: all these records for $3 apiece.
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You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason.
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Now in business we do a cost benefit analysis before we make policy changes. Washington should as well.
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When I was in N.W.A. and didn't get paid all the money I was owed, that's when the business side of showbiz hit me.
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Know the business, learn the business, own something.
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Every small business will give you an entrepreneurial way of looking at things. I guarantee you that for every plant that closes, if you gave it to one small-business person in that community, he or she would find a way to make it work. The small-business attitude is you always find a way to make it work.
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Any operating system without a browser is going to be fucking out of business. Should we improve our product, or go out of business?
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Women in pro-ams are always telling me about all the business deals they've struck on the golf course playing with their male work colleagues.
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The print magazine and print journalism industry is obviously in a great deal of trouble, and one of the things that happened when this business started to give way to the Internet and to broadcast television is that a lot of organizations started cutting specifically investigative journalism and they also started cutting fact-checkers.
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The power that religion has is that you think nothing is random: If there's a tragedy in my life, that's God testing me or sending me a message.
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It's an incredible honor, and it's so unlikely. I took a stab at doing this, and it's been extremely well received. ... Phil has gotten an enormous amount of attention, all of it well deserved. I think we've gotten our fair share, and whatever shakes out in terms of Oscar stuff is fine.
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Making pictures, for an actress, is like betting, for a gambler. Each time you make a picture you try to analyze why you won or lost.
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I treat my relationships like marriages. The ceremony isn't that important to me.
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All the money I have, I got it legally.
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The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the personage, the greater the profit.
