Harvey Pekar Quotes
And no business can possibly equate happy workers community with profit effectiveness. Happy workers are much more productive workers and hence contribute to profit, but no organization is formed for the idea of pleasing its employees.
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Well, when you get into the business, what you have to realize is that signing autographs and getting 'bothered' is just part of the deal. It's not a bother to me at all. That's part of being an actor and that's something you have to realize before you ever get into this business.
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I know I can't plan in this business, but I'm going to keep going as long as I keep getting close... So far, I feel lucky and infinitely grateful for the successes that I've had. I'm just going to keep working hard, and whatever happens, happens.
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I'm a lobbyist and had a career lobbying. The guy who gets elected or the lady who gets elected president of the United States will immediately be lobbying. They would be advocating to the Congress, they'll be lobbying our allies and our adversaries overseas. They'll be asking the business community and labor unions.
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The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.
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I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.
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Let's find those areas where modest and reasonable tax cuts will have the biggest positive impact on our economy, and which will improve the lives of those who need it most: working families, retirees, and small business owners.
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Good writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying, Tour my world, see and feel it through my eyes; I am your guide.
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Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.
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You know, I lose patience really easily; I'd rather shop in the grocery store than in the department store. I can pick an apple like nobody's business.
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I'm retired from the daredevil business.
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I have a business background. I have always wanted to open my own business.
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Dealing with those personalities and the people who run this music thing has been most challenging. It's hard to really communicate things to people who run a business yet forget the nature of the business. They only look at the bottom line and the financial return, you know, they forget what it is they're packaging. It's art.
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The one thing I know is, if I play good ball, things have tended to come along with it. Everything that I've ever done in my career has come off of playing good football. And so I realize I need to go out there, and I need to take care of my business; then everything else - all these cool, great things - come along with it.
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The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.
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YouTube has proven it can flourish in a model where there is more autonomy, and in that way I think it is an example and a potential model for other areas of the business.
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The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.
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I love acting and I have a need to do it, even when the business is down.
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I'm a businessman. I work for business people. The kind of thing they say is: Now we've sold a lot of records, let's sell some more.
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We mislead ourselves when we pretend we can make someone into an effective manager by putting them through a few courses in business school.
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The difference between most mothers and me is that I didn't sit around drinking coffee at baby group for 12 months after the birth of my baby. No, in three weeks I was back in my suit, back at my desk earning profit for my business and I don't see why other women shouldn't do the same.
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The first film that I can remember seeing where, like, I just couldn't stop watching it - and it didn't necessarily make me want to be a director because I was so young, but it made me know that that's what I wanted to be doing - was 'Alien.' And I saw that when I was probably just over 10 years old.
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Listen to advice. You don't know how many writer's conferences I've taught at where at least half the audience fights all the conventions of the field.
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Come on, planning a wedding, let's be honest, it's not fun. It's not fun being in a wedding.
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And no business can possibly equate happy workers community with profit effectiveness. Happy workers are much more productive workers and hence contribute to profit, but no organization is formed for the idea of pleasing its employees.
