Mike McCue Quotes
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How I see my career is very much as an entrepreneur in the field of philanthropy.
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My mum was no pushy parent. She would drop me off for auditions when I was in my teens at the Lyric Theatre, then give me my bus fare and say she would see me later at home. She wasn't hanging around in the wings geeing me on. I had to do it on my own; it was up to me.
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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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No entrepreneur ever publicly admits to bribing, but few dare to openly claim they don't, either.
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For an entrepreneur with 'improbable' and 'impossible' dreams, the alleged stability that comes from getting 'a real job' is nothing but a sign of slavery.
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My mom was a single parent.
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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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Years later, nothing makes me more grateful as a parent than my daughters' encounters with classroom wizards.
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You have to respect your parents. They are giving you an at-bat. If you're an entrepreneur and go into the family business, you want to grow fast. Patience is important. But respect the other party... My dad and I pulled it off because we really respect each other.
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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Ultimately, very few people parent their kids in ways that strike anybody else as reasoned, appropriate or sane.
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I've always enjoyed shopping and loved fashion, but my interest as an entrepreneur was definitely more about the opportunities I saw to change the future of retail. My sister was a buyer in New York, and she knew my body and my style, and she could find me things I loved. I thought, 'What if everybody had access to this kind of experience?'
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It's now arguably over-written about and over-discussed how hard it is to be an entrepreneur. Of course it's hard. So is being a parent. Let's stop over-congratulating ourselves and let's just do our work.
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My father was a successful entrepreneur.
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What I've learned in my career is that it takes the same amount of effort to build a $10bn company as it does a $1bn company; you as the entrepreneur are going to put your entire life, your entire effort into it.
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The life purpose of the true social entrepreneur is to change the world.
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In the morning at home, I'm not functioning as an entrepreneur - I completely limit technology and any work-think - I'm functioning as a mom and a wife.
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It was a chance encounter with a biotech entrepreneur from Ireland that got me started as an entrepreneur in India, because I partnered this Irish company in setting up India's first biotech company.
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It is our duty to see that our future citizens are well born; that they are properly nourished, and are reared in that environment most likely to develop in them their full capacity and powers.
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When you look at statistics for the white community alone, you see that we've become two separate worlds in which the successful are educated and wait to have children until they are married, and those in poverty are primarily those without higher education and with children outside of marriage.
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The yearning for study was always there. I loved to learn. I really enjoyed tudying history. Taking college classes was just something I wanted to do. It gave me such a feeling of satisfaction.
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My parents were entrepreneurs. They ran a small ad agency in upstate New York.
