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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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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People who look at Apple's success and think we look at it as, 'Okay, great, we're done,' don't appreciate what's really going on here.
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I'm always sad to see a relationship not work, but what happens between two people is not my business.
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I actually had a number of different careers. I worked on Wall Street; I was a Master's in Business. I left that to work in the public sector.
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The tendency is to think if you are a professional woman, it's because you've turned your back on the traditional side. The tendency is not to recognize that we can excel as professionals without giving up our identity of being mother, wife and homemaker.
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A good two years after Hurricane Katrina I remember feeling so devastated and so ignorant that there was so much damage still left. I felt like here I was an American and this is an American city and the government hasn't done enough and people haven't given back enough. Everyone forgot and the city was lying in waste.
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I don't care how loyal you think you're going to be, Dink. It's not in you. You're a brat and you always will be. So admit what a lousy follower you are, and go ahead and LEAD.
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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.
