Reed Hastings (Wilmot Reed Hastings Jr.) Quotes
Truly brilliant marketing happens when you take something most people think of as a weakness and reposition it so people think of it as a strength.
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I don't think the federal government has any business keeping a list of law-abiding Americans who exercise their constitutional right to keep and bear arms.
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There are many things which swallow up men's thoughts while they live, which they will think little of when they are dying. Hundreds are wholly absorbed in political schemes and seem to care for nothing but the advancement of their own party. Myriads are buried in business and money matters and seem to neglect everything else but this world.
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During the course of my football and business careers, I have had the great honor of meeting and associating with many outstanding leaders.
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I had popcorn all over the place, so I decided I might as well be in the Processing Business.
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Personality is the most important thing to an actress's success.
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Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.
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The story of Americans is the story of arrested metamorphoses. Those who achieve success come to a halt and accept themselves as they are. Those who fail become resigned and accept themselves as they are.
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A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
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When I returned to the United States after three years of World War II service, my total assets consisted of one wife, one small daughter, $276 in the bank, and an idea. The idea was for an export business to supply items badly needed everywhere in Europe.
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If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.
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The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
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All those lessons that I've learned on the court, I have applied them to my life outside of the court in business, my company, called V Starr interiors, an interior design company, and EleVen, which I wear on court.
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For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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It's like night and day... to do business, in Europe, there is no bull, they are pretty straightforward.
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I love the business of business; I love the risk raking.
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I think we've come to where we are because of those positive ties and working together for working families. That's our priority and continues to be. It's been there since our founding and we've now achieved the best success we've ever had electorally. So I think you want to continue with what's working
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I need pity. I know what I feel. Great place and business in the world is not worth looking after.
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Life is a business that does not cover the costs.
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As a business consultant, I am a voracious reader of self-help books, case studies of thriving companies, and the biographies and autobiographies of the world's most successful people. I relentlessly implement the best ideas into my businesses.
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Our second single (I Need Somebody) went top 20, and to a band that never made it, that would be a success. But when you have a #1 hit song, you're held up against that. It's hard to beat. The radio stations picked up a few more songs by The Mysterians, such as Can't Get Enough Of You Baby and Do Something To Me.
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When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
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I went through six years of battles on health care because I didn't have $100 million worth of advertising saying how it would never work.
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I've said this a lot - I'm afraid to have girls! I've worked with kids before, and I just relate to boys better. I like their competitiveness and aggression: that's more my style. I'm still dead set on doing whatever I can to make sure I only have boys!
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Truly brilliant marketing happens when you take something most people think of as a weakness and reposition it so people think of it as a strength.
