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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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 very careful about going on certain networks that seem to have a bias.
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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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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 need to make investment to get the economy going again, to give the private sector the confidence.
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We need to do everything possible to save the Jewish state. We don't have another Jewish state.
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I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.
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I need to thank my director, producers, and artists as well crew members of all my projects.
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The business plan should address: "How will I get customers? How will I market the product or service? Who will I target?" The principles of a business plan are pretty much the same. But after page one to two, everything is unpredictable, because costs or competition will change and you don't know how things will be received by the market. You have to be able to continually adapt. Companies that fail to adapt will die. Others are brilliant at adapting.
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We need to accept that consumption is not the end goal of our life and stop measuring our well-being simply on the basis of earnings. We need to explicitly take the quality of our work-related life into account in judging our well-being.
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I want to take piano lessons, I want to study at university, I want to travel, I want to do other parts, make another movie.
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The ultimate end of all activity in the Church is to see a husband and his wife and their children happy at home, protected by the principles and laws of the gospel, sealed safely in the covenants of the everlasting priesthood. Husbands and wives should understand that their first calling-from which they will never be released-is to one another and then to their children.
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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.
