Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. Quotes
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Entrepreneurship is the very back bone of our country and what makes us great - we are a nation of founders.
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Younger customers are the future, but older customers have the money. So you need both: one for the present, and the other for the future.
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Saying no frees you up to say yes when it matters most.
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If I stayed in London, I probably would have gotten more work. I've never wanted to be thought of as an 'It' girl, someone who rides on the coattails of my mother.
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On the taxing of banks, we have to find the level at which they squeal but still pay and open up the next day.
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When I look at my streams on Spotify, and I just see it's hundreds of millions of streams, I think, 'Wow, that's amazing.' But you don't really get it. Once you see people in front of you singing along to your songs, it's real.
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I don't even see it as cable TV anymore. I've been called 'Larry the Cable Guy' for so long, I don't even think about it being about cable. I don't know anything about cable.
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Well I look for an accompanist that does his work well, this to begin.
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When I was little, people like Talking Heads were on the radio. There was something geeky yet groundbreaking about them.
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I guess HBO did a giant 'War in the Pacific' mini-series that cost, like, a fortune, and there was a little moment where they literally had no money. And even though the show had become kind of a cult hit, there was an issue of whether they could actually afford to do it.
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A lot of actors, whatever movie you're working on, you make up a back story just for your own, to work off, even if the audience doesn't have it revealed to them. I think it's important that the audience makes up their own mind.
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Anyone can look beautiful.
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That's why for Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society the colors are black and white. There are no gray issues. Life is black and it's white. There's no in-between.
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I'm still finding my legs, performance-wise, being up there by myself. I think I have a bit of proving myself ahead of me.
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Young girls in particular aren't given a space to be messy and complicated and express themselves and experiment - they're told to be a little quieter and a little less than.
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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.
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The view from space is like having a globe on your desk -- it's a broadening experience.
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If you see the illusion you are enlightened, but if you think that you are enlightened you are in the illusion!
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Our strategy in dealing with patents in Mono is the same strategy that any other software developer would take. In the event of a patent claim, we will try to find prior art to the claim of the patent.
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When you're doing a car chase movie, you're sitting in car waiting for places or grips or stuff for quite a while.
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The theme of luck comes up a lot. It's something I thought about before, why some people are lucky and some people aren't lucky. It seems like some people you meet can sort of cultivate luck, and I've always been fascinated by that.
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Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It's not a popular position.
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Unless structure follows strategy, inefficiency results.
