Mike Melville Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals.
-
If we don't have God in our life, we're considered dead.
-
I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America.
-
If you put up a blog, people can cut out the middle man and get material to you. Which is really helpful because a lot of time there's really cool stuff out there that we just don't see. Because, y'know, the agent is acting in our best interest, but it does sometimes prevent some of the good stuff from getting through.
-
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
-
After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and - Boom! - people go.
-
One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.
-
Honestly, at times, I still get bored. 'Dancing with the Stars' kept me busy, and that's what I like. When I first started fighting, I was working two jobs, and I was still going to school at the same time while training. I'm meant to be a busy person.
-
We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
-
I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.
-
A solid family, as they say. They join me on location if they have a chance, but I can also be home three or four months doing nothing, so I probably see my kids more than people who work constantly all year long. If that changes, we'll have to have a family meeting.
-
My parents aren't married. And one of the reasons why they never got married is because they had been married before, and they liked it the way it was. They didn't feel like they needed a piece of paper to be committed. So for me, I know that marriage is not a golden ticket.
-
I built the business exactly the way my mother built and ran her family. I wanted a replication of the big, happy family I grew up in. I wanted happy people having fun.
-
In my previous career as a chief executive of high-tech companies, I experienced firsthand the endless possibilities when people from diverse backgrounds work together. They get to know one another and quickly learn that they share more in common than they originally thought.
-
Ukraine must once again be revered and respected by its citizens as well as the East and the West.
-
My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.
-
What matters is discovering myself under the veneer, under the layers that are wrapped around me. There are two 'yous'; there's 'you', the real you, and then there's the image.
-
The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.
-
I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
-
One of my favorite movies of all time is 'Fargo.'
-
It's the centerpiece of the borough. We can't just let it disappear, there are so few of them left.
-
I remember 'Def Comedy Jam' being a big deal and kids talking about it in school, but it was never, 'I want to do that.'
-
A man that ain't willin' to cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough.
-
What you want to do, and what you can do, is limited only by what you can dream.
