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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Being a parent is about your survival. Surviving the terrible two's is the most important thing.
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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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Konosuke Matsushita was a visionary entrepreneur. He started working very young as a teenager, and he eventually created Panasonic to become a truly global company.
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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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I wish people didn't just think of me in the '60s. I'm not any era.
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I understand that this has taken a lot of politicians by surprise. But we believe that this is an important and right step for the steel industry.
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Give me a Japanese division armed with bamboo spears and I'll wipe out the entire Russian Far Eastern Army.
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If anything unfolds, it's supposed to
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if four Gaza kids playing soccer were killed Wednesday, as Hamas claims, the terror group is at fault.
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My parents were entrepreneurs. They ran a small ad agency in upstate New York.
