Mike Wilson Quotes
Being a starving company isn't fun for anyone. Most that go away need to go away... but certainly not all.
Quotes to Explore
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The Cinquecento was an engine of motivation at Fiat. It refurbished the image of the entire company. It's a symbol for the company, but it's more than that. It's a global Italian symbol, as Mini is a global British symbol and the Beetle is a global German symbol.
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Your mind is a magnet. You don't attract what you need or what you want; you attract who you are. And I love who I am!
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What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society.
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I'm doing a lot of things in Africa. I've formed a company with two friends of mine called Made In Africa and we are doing a lot of important things across the continent.
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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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For all of my fortune, there are many with misfortune that need a hand.
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I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity.
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Be kind to one another. You may need each other when you are older.
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I need to be able to explain myself in context.
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I need to be very careful about going on certain networks that seem to have a bias.
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But I don't need to use politics as a way of making money.
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In most companies people make a specific contribution to the company in their function. But it is not expressed in terms of profit, only in terms of performing their function better.
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Even the best scientists are often insecure and feel the need for recognition.
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In married life three is company and two none.
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On the tech side, little start-ups can do something magnificent. They don't need too much in terms of plants and infrastructure.
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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?
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We still need to feed the public, both physically and intellectually.
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We need to be clear when we venerate entrepreneurs what we are venerating. They are not moral leaders. If they were moral leaders, they wouldn't be great businessmen.
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We are living our lives more online and you need to have different ways to capture that.
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Now that I look back, I realize that a life predicated on being obedient and taking orders is a very comfortable life indeed. Living in such a way reduces to a minimum one's own need to think.
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I've turned from an ordinary Australian housewife into a gigastar, icon, talk-show host, swami, spin doctor... and now I'm a style guru!
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I was doing shows and flying economy, and nobody ever fed me. Or I'd be staying in hotels so cheap that by the time I'd get in, there wasn't any room service. I didn't eat for a long time. Not on purpose. You'd be on shoots with bad food or get on a plane, and the food would be so disgusting you couldn't eat it.
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Being a starving company isn't fun for anyone. Most that go away need to go away... but certainly not all.
