M. L. Stedman Quotes
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You have to be un-comfortably comfortable in this business. There's always somebody else who wants what you have.
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I had the option of building a career in the U.S. Many of my friends who went at the time did not come back, but for me, building the family business and being with family was worth it. I became a general manager within four months, as I used my education to improve productivity and output.
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In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the world.
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I don't really read 'business books,' and I didn't think 'The Paradox of Choice' was a business book. I'm very surprised and gratified that the business world thought it was one.
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I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.
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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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Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business.
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I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of.
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Many young adults I have communicated with - both in-person and over email - constantly apologize before stating their idea, or finish each sentence with a question. Unfortunately, doing so in business puts you at an immediate disadvantage with your boss and work colleagues.
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My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.
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You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.
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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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Slater's a big star and he's been in the business a long time. He's always in a good mood and easygoing but he takes his character very seriously.
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It's just become such a business, getting into college. I see that a lot in my friends, their parents were so on top of them about getting into an Ivy League school since they were so young, they were just drilled and drilled and drilled, to the point that they just don't know why they want to go.
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Business as usual will not be accepted by any part of this city.
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We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.
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I owe a lot to my dad, just for having provided the wrestling business for us to get into.
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I have a business background. I have always wanted to open my own business.
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If you use your old business models to restrict people, they're going to find ways to get that content the way they want it.
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If you're nasty to me in my place of business, I'm going to be really nasty back.
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The beauty of You delights me. The sight of You amazes me. For the Pearl does this... and the Ocean does that.
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I tend to see my characters from inside and outside at once; this is a technique I use to retain a slight distance. It means my characters can act in unexpected ways on two axes: physical and mental. It isn't just, 'I thought this and then I did this,' which is the technique of the modern psychological novel.
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I listen to a lot of different kinds of music and at the moment I listen a lot to house music.
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Such a mysterious business, motherhood. How brave a woman must be to embark on it.
