Thomas Dewar Quotes
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I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.
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Usually when you're working is when people want you to work. They don't want you as much when you're not working. That's the frustrating nature of our business.
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Realize that the game of life is the game of, to some extent, being taken advantage of by people who make a science of it. Whether they are in government or personal life or in business, they're everywhere.
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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've done fine in this business, but I've never made quite enough money to have a family or have many options.
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American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
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But my observation has been, certainly in the news business, you've got to give 110 percent.
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Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.
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Government can wreck a business by confiscating its money by taxation.
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Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.
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Good writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying, Tour my world, see and feel it through my eyes; I am your guide.
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Whaling was the oil business of its day.
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I spend 90 percent of my time saying no, and my accountant yells at me for it, but when I started in this business, I wanted my career to have legs.
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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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When we stop running up huge budget deficits and start acting responsibly in Washington, we will provide small-business owners with the certainty they need to put Americans back to work.
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It's not about revenues: The fundamental economics in digital business is scale and margins. The top line has become the bottom line.
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The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
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I'm in a business where no one cares about anything except how well your last collection sold.
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I've been mocked a lot. I've been made fun of, you know, of the standards that I keep out, and that I hold out on the road and the way I conduct my business and myself and the way I behave in this business.
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Capitalism proceeds through creative destruction. What is created is capitalism in a 'new and improved' form - and what is destroyed is self-sustaining capacity, livelihood and dignity of its innumerable and multiplied 'host organisms' into which all of us are drawn/seduced one way or another.
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We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.
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Without fanaticism we cannot accomplish anything.
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We should not say how's business, but where is business
