Steve Burke (Stephen B. Burke) Quotes
There are movies and TV shows I wish we didn't make, sure, but we're in the business of creating things that are not all going to work.
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My finances have been decimated by a group of people, such as my ex-attorney, my ex-business manager, and an estate planner, specifically. And they have conspired together to - to co-op my corporations, put in trustees without my knowledge.
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I had parents in the business and they made sure that the art was the biggest concern.
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Well, I happen to believe all business is female business.
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At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.
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I think Steve Jobs is a historic figure. He's not only a historic figure in business, but really in America.
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The biggest misconception people have about me is that when they see how young I am, they think, 'Oh, this guy must have always wanted to be in politics; his parents must have been politically connected.' I'm a finance major and always intended to go into business.
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I invited a group of students to my studio to expose them to both the creative and business sides of the fashion industry. It was fun because the group was so bright and full of curiosity. They asked really challenging questions about all aspects of the business and absorbed so much information so quickly.
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I wanted to inspire people not to work under a bamboo ceiling. Whatever you are - yellow, black, white, brown - you don't have to allow your skin to define who you are or how you operate your business. There's not one face to anything.
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Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.
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I never really feel wrong while making movies. I know myself, and I know that my intentions are pure and I'm on the side of righteousness.
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Ukrainian business must really embrace global competition. We need to understand that competition for resources and clients is not with competitors from across the street or from another city, but with millions of businesses around the world.
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I don't think there are that many awesome roles out there, whether we're talking about movies or TV.
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I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be.
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I was frustrated for a long time with my colleagues in the business school world and with so many management authors who didn't really see themselves as innovators. They were glorified journalists.
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There are two different forms of storytelling: Novels tend to come from the inside of a character, and movies tend to look at them from the outside in relation to others in their world.
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What kind of business world are we living in?
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To me, the newspaper business was a way to learn about life and how things worked in the real world and how people spoke. You learn all the skills - you learn to listen, you learn to take notes - everything you use later as a novelist was valuable training in the newspaper world. But I always wanted to write novels.
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When you come through a business education, a lot of what they teach you is to make decisions through analysis, and logic and rationale, and I'm a big believer in that. But I also believe in the power of instinct. The truth is you're never going to have a perfect answer or view of how it is going to work.
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THERE is widespread agreement among economists that abuse of credit constitutes one of the chief unwholesome elements in business booms and is mainly responsible for the ensuing crash and depression.
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There is a deep connection, when we're talking about certain market forces and a legal structure that inhibits low or moderate income families from getting ahead. Eviction is part of a business model at the bottom of the market.
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It's tough to live in New York and be in the business.
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I play a role in front of the cameras, just like in the movies.
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We seek for truth in ourselves; in our neighbours, and in its essential nature. We find it first in ourselves by severe self scrutiny, then in our neighbours by compassionate indulgence, and, finally, in its essential nature by that direct vision which belongs to the pure in heart.
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There are movies and TV shows I wish we didn't make, sure, but we're in the business of creating things that are not all going to work.
