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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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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It was something of a personal challenge for me to come up with a business suitable for the Internet world and the Internet age.
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After coming from a major label, I realized the entire business has been decimated, and you can't look to labels to try to figure it out because they don't even use the technology, and they're oblivious to how people consume music these days.
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If there's any success that I've had, it is a direct reflection of the people I work with. We have a very smart team and an extremely hardworking team, both here in Washington and back in Illinois.
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I think I'm going to improve a team the day I get there, honestly. I think I can be the guy who can play right away, the guy who can sit if I need to and learn.
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It started in middle school. Once, a group of girls locked me in the janitor's closet. Another time, a girl spilled chocolate milk down a dress I made. Girls would try to trip me in the hallway.
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Representing the U.S.A. is one of the greatest honors of my life, and being able to do it as my authentic self makes it all so much sweeter.
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The greatest danger of a terrorist's bomb is in the explosion of stupidity that it provokes.
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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.
