Ian Brodie Quotes
Without the right marketing metrics, you are shooting in the dark. The only way to know if things are working for you or not is those metrics.
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I'd love to be 'People Magazine''s Sexiest Man Alive, but I think that that's a ways off. I have to stop wearing sweat pants, and then we'll work on that.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.
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It's always really challenging trying to go from player to player/coach. You have a kind of friendship basis of relationship with all of your teammates, and now you go to this power position where you have to make decisions that might hurt people's feelings.
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In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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I have always battled injustice. As a child, I used to fight on the side of my friends when boys terrorized them.
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Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.
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Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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I just never, in my career, got into doing a lot of press.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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Truth comes to us mediated by human love.
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The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
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One of my first favorite records was the debut Garbage album, which I heard when I was very young. Shirley Manson is a great female vocalist and performer and I admire her for that.
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If God came down here with the box that had the reason for living in it, I'd like to find just 2 words: The Music. That would be neat.
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Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.
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If the existence of bullshit jobs seems to defy the logic of capitalism, one possible reason for their proliferation might be that the existing system isn’t capitalism-or at least, isn’t any sort of capitalism that would be recognizable from the works of Adam Smith, Karl Marx, or, for that matter, Ludwig von Mises or Milton Friedman.
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It's a very Southern thing to be interested in dark stuff.
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At its core, all authentic growth depends on more customers wanting more of what your company offers. Any other drivers - pricing gimmicks, heroic marketing efforts, forced acquisitions - are ultimately destructive.
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I think a lot of people overlook the importance of the menu as a marketing tool and a way of communicating to the customer what the ambition of their restaurant is. Not only the typeface and the design, but what is it printed on? Is it cheap-looking? Is it the right kind of paper for that restaurant?
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The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth.
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Without the right marketing metrics, you are shooting in the dark. The only way to know if things are working for you or not is those metrics.
