Harold Washington Quotes
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My finances have been decimated by a group of people, such as my ex-attorney, my ex-business manager, and an estate planner, specifically. And they have conspired together to - to co-op my corporations, put in trustees without my knowledge.
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Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.
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Almost anything worth doing involves some measure of risk - from learning to ride a bike, moving to a new city, and certainly, starting your own business. The point is that no one has ever started a business or created a new product with a guarantee of success.
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The one thing I will never do is become pigeonholed.
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I will go so far as to say probably smoking had something to do with my pancreatic cancer.
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Where issues used to be, say, parochial or local in Ireland or England and so forth, all politics is global now because all business is global.
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We must not forget that chemical warfare will sooner or later bring in its wake bacteriological warfare, pest propagation, typhus and other serious diseases.
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If people like you, they'll listen to you, but if they trust you, they'll do business with you.
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Planning a garden, park, building, or city shouldn't be done in an office.
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When you spend a lot of money on one player, you want him to prove himself, but the way football works, one day you can be good, the next you can be bad, and the next after that, you can be very bad. I have come to Manchester City to work very hard and to help my friends make Manchester City great.
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When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.
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Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
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Making $30,000 on my first business deal was exciting, but not as exciting as the sudden knowledge that I did not have to work for anyone again.
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I'm so much fun. Every kid wishes I was their grandpa! I'm the Motor City Madgramps.
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If the City Council wants to hold the police accountable, it has the subpoena power and oversight responsibility to do so. They don't have the courage to do it.
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You learn so much about yourself as an artist. I never would have thought that I could sing every night, you know? Travel and perform every single night, and travel to another city the next day and do it all over again? You learn a lot of new things about yourself, and you make a lot of connections with people.
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
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We can reorient our products and business strategy because we are an agile organisation.
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Although we can't control which roles are assigned to us, it must be our business to act our given role as best we possibly can and to refrain from complaining about it. Where ever you find yourself and in whatever circumstances, give an impeccable performance.
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You know, it's a sad and unfortunate state of affairs that you have to live in a world where eight-year-olds refuse to believe in anything that they cannot touch or measure, and anyone who happens to see a thing that is invisible to most people is immediately branded a lunatic.
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The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development--
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In my generation, history was taught in terms of grand figures, men on whom the destiny of the nation hinged, quintessential heroes.
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A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me.
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Business as usual will not be accepted by any part of this city.
