Adam Thomson Quotes
A recession is when you have to tighten your belt; depression is when you have no belt to tighten. When you've lost your trousers - you're in the airline business.
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I am in a traditional financial services business - but we at Fidelity can see that the evolution of technology is setting our industry up for disruption. What if this technology could do for the transfer of value what the Internet did for the transfer of information?
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Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or with a knowledge of the canons of evidence in its own sphere.
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I think Steve Jobs is a historic figure. He's not only a historic figure in business, but really in America.
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I had popcorn all over the place, so I decided I might as well be in the Processing Business.
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I have had issues with depression all my life, and it's probably true to say there was a tendency towards it even when I was very young, during my schooldays. There was often - and this is quite common with comics - a sense of not feeling as if I belonged anywhere.
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I work in the film business, where schmoozing is an art form, lunch hour lasts from 12:30 until 3, and every meeting takes an hour whether there's an hour's worth of business or not.
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Removing government-created obstacles to small business growth is what Washington should be addressing, and this focus should start with removing the herculean impediments to job creation found in the health care law.
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It's all about trying to be very careful about what your next role or what your next move is gonna be. It's all about trying to have longevity in this business and make smart choices.
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Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.
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There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.
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We can find a great sector or business, but we're investing so early that unless there's this tenacious grit, determination, resourcefulness, ability to evolve, it won't work.
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As a CEO of a large company, clearly we need policies in the U.S. government that are pro-business, because at the end of the day, we all work within the framework of a country's policies.
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I had no idea that he was going to write that, but I've always believed that insecurity was what would keep you always in your innocence, no matter what the business did.
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I do a lot of research on the placebo effect, not just in depression but in irritable bowel syndrome, pain, arthritis of the knee, migraine, asthma.
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Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life.
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The hardest part about this business is accepting the back end with the same love that you accepted the front end.
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Specialized management courses are useful but should come well after the complexity of management and business are understood.
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I like doing business in a black city.
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Over my career, somewhere, somehow I must've made some right calls. Otherwise, I wouldn't be in business.
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A goal of mine is to try and be as real as possible. To try and not comment on the work I'm doing but just do it.
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I think I would have written more books if I'd had fewer kids or had them earlier, but I think the books in general would have had a little less spark to them.
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There's nothing more fun than just walking through town or maybe going to a community-based festival. How much does that cost? Nothing!
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A kiss is a secret told to the mouth instead of the ear; kisses are the messengers of love and tenderness.
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A recession is when you have to tighten your belt; depression is when you have no belt to tighten. When you've lost your trousers - you're in the airline business.
