Tilman J. Fertitta (Tilman Joseph Fertitta) Quotes
I can't draw a stick person. I can't play a musical instrument. But I've always had a knack for making money.
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The first album I bought with my own money was 'A Hard Day's Night.'
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Old habits die hard. I don't like spending money willy-nilly.
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If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
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I wanted to make a living, but I really was not interested in money at all. I was interested in being a great comedian.
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I know the true meaning of getting by by the skin of my teeth; I do. It doesn't matter whether you've got money or you haven't, whether you're famous or not. This is the case for all women, actually; you have to carry on. You always have to carry on. And you can, because you have to.
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These women were taking over these former manufacturing warehouses in SoHo and figuring out a way to be fashionable and viable without money. It's hard to imagine a life like that in Manhattan now - there's something romantic about it.
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So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for an hour bill and didn't have them until the night before we opened in Buffalo and money was no object!
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Yeah, if someone's selling downloads and collecting money for our songs I would be unhappy about that but if they're trading it I don't mind, obviously if I make a thousand records or CDs or whatever, I like to sell a thousand.
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Television has filled the space for actors that really want to make good work and not just make a lot of money and be famous for making a lot of money and being famous.
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Now that we have a bit of money, it is nice to get gifts for people. Before I was getting and not really giving.
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I've always been really picky about roles and make a point of reminding myself that it's not about the money - because, obviously, there's a lot of money to be made in this business if you're willing to do anything.
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I lend people money, but I'd never lend something that would jeopardise a friendship if I didn't get it back.
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The profession is never going back to those days when a handful of wealthy people treated publishing like a hobby: one where the business can lose money because the family has lots of it to burn. Frankly, I don't think that model was ever sustainable, and it really only enriched a small number of writers.
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Musician jokes are a kind of joke that usually have to do with how much money someone makes. Musicians are always starving, so they're really mean to each other about who makes what.
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A lot of magic happens when you put out a publicity release. I have launched many products with the money I got back from my publicity release.
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My dad was a baggage handler at Heathrow and careful with money. He worked hard and had three jobs when I was young. I wish I'd inherited his care for money. Sadly, I've grown up to be rather scatty when it comes to finances.
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You can have the best product in the world, you can have the best motivation in the world, you can have best education in the world, you can have all the money in the world - but if you don't have direction, you'll never go anywhere.
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House of the Dead 2 I gave away. Alone in the Dark 2 I will also not do; even if the DVD movie made money. BloodRayne 2 in the Wild West is what I really want to do.
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Accepting money from the federal government to conduct research places academic inquiry in the service of national interests.
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I had been wanting to do a musical for a really long time. I wanted people in New York to know that I can sing.
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With a private company, you've got to get into who's investing and what's the balance sheet like. So going public is a positive thing from the perspective of the sales organization.
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People who fail to accumulate money, without exception, have the habit of reaching decisions, if at all, very slowly, and of changing these decisions quickly and often.
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We know that veterans have valuable skills and experiences that are highly sought after in today's workforce.
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I can't draw a stick person. I can't play a musical instrument. But I've always had a knack for making money.
