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.

Adam Thomson

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• Recession

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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?

  

  Abigail Johnson
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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.

  

  A. E. Waite
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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.

  

  Walt Mossberg
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• I had popcorn all over the place, so I decided I might as well be in the Processing Business.

  

  Orville Redenbacher
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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.

  

  R. J. Cutler
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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.

  

  Sam Graves
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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.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Trying
  • Business
  • Choices

• Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Life
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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.

  

  Sally Field
  • People
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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.

  

  Dan Levitan
  • Work
  • Great
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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.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Business
  • Always
  • Insecurity

• 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.

  

  Irving Kirsch
  • Pain
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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.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Life
  • Different
  • Business

• The hardest part about this business is accepting the back end with the same love that you accepted the front end.

  

  Garth Brooks
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• Specialized management courses are useful but should come well after the complexity of management and business are understood.

  

  Warren Bennis
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• I like doing business in a black city.

  

  Yaphet Kotto
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• In the business world, if you're not looking ahead, you're missing something.

  

  Jared Polis
  • World
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• The collective energy of everyone is what really made Business 2.0 exciting.

  

  James Daly
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• Sometimes I get extremely disturbed with the things that are written. But you can't do anything about it. As a celebrity, you are putting yourself out there to be judged, and that's fine. I am now learning not to get affected by such things. I am building my career and making choices that I think are right while minding my own business.

  

  Anushka Sharma
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  • Career
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• I would like - either as an actor, or producer or even director - to do something sci-fi or action-related. I like sci-fi, always have, 'Star Trek' and 'Star Wars' and all that stuff.

  

  Queen Latifah
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• I think we all have a primal desire to know as much as we can to find out about where we come from.

  

  George C. Wolfe
  • Desire

• As I'm growing, so is my music.

  

  Shawn Mendes
  • Music
  • Growing

• I have made myself two or three caps to wear of evenings since I came home, and they save me a world of torment as to hair-dressing, which at present gives me no trouble beyond washing and brushing, for my long hair is always plaited up out of sight, and my short hair curls well enough to want no papering.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Home
  • Wear
  • Evenings

• 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.

  

  Adam Thomson
  • Business
  • Depression
  • Recession