Michael Gerber Quotes
Most entrepreneurs fail because they are working IN their business rather than ON their business.
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I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'
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For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.
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I'm worried about the future of America insofar as our academically most promising students are being funneled through the cookie-cutter Ivy League and other elite schools and emerging with this callow anti-American, anti-military cast to their thinking.
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I'm a genuine person - I will never promote something I don't believe in.
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Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.
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I love Chicago. I lived there briefly for three months and kept a boat under one of those space-age buildings. It was very Jetsons.
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Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.
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I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.
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In all the world, rich people are very unpopular.
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Certainly we know from our own experience how very difficult it is when you've lost an election that perhaps a lot of people were expecting you to win.
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If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it.
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I was opposed to the government mandating that restaurants not allow people to smoke, believing it becomes the customer's choice whether they go in or not. But then, I thought, 'What about the employees? Aren't they hostage to a smoking environment, even if they don't smoke?'
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I feel like a lot of comedians do have that deep, dark thing. I have my stuff, but I don't go to that dark place.
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Negative politics have always been around.
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Headlining can be sort of solitary - you're sort of on your own out there, and you start to feel for a change.
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A new species is arising on the planet. It is arising now, and you are it!
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I'm one of these people who tends to think that the ordinary people are more fascinating than the celebrities and even the politicians.
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I have some assets that over time will be worth something. I've been in the process of selling others.
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We can't think of any better way of becoming our best selves, than by finding something we're great at!
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For some reason all the middle-aged women he knew were very efficient.
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The most important lesson I've learned in this business is how to say no. I have said no to a lot of temptations, and I am glad I did.
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It's a risky business to send a picture out into the world. How often it must be impaired by the eyes of the unfeeling and the cruelty of the impotent who could extend their affliction universally!
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Most entrepreneurs fail because they are working IN their business rather than ON their business.
