Christopher Doyle Quotes
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I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on.
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History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.
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I buy companies for strategic reasons and operate them.
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I had both male and female heroes.
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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.
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As soon as you've written it, you're thinking about how it can move into different mediums.
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Medicaid and Medicare both need to be devolved to the states.
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A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle.
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I don't know why people are so surprised by my live performances. My approach is so simple; every song I sing, every story I tell, every move I make, must move the audience to laughter, tears or inspiration. Otherwise, why should I do it?
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Does the difficulty in ensuring each and every employee of such companies is not tied to insurgent groups and not potentially providing useful targeting information to these groups argue against continuing to employ such firms unless there is no alternative?
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We believe the combination of these two companies will produce very powerful synergies and puts us on a solid platform from which we should be able to realize our full growth potential.
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There is a case, and a strong case, for that particular form of indolence that allows us to move through life knowing only what immediately concerns us.
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We're a defensive team. We have to be a defensive teams. The other teams that win games are teams that are in the top, defensively.
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What if there was an eBay of applications, where companies could buy and sell software, running on our platform? ... What if there was an iTunes Music Store of online applications?
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I'm amazed by the potential of more companies employing integrated philanthropic initiatives at earlier stages in their life cycle. What if this were done on an even more massive scale? Consider what would happen if a top-tier venture-capital firm required the companies in which it invested to place 1% of their equity into a foundation serving the communities in which they do business.
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The elites - or managers in companies - no longer control the conversation. This is how insurrections start.
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A master salesman is one who takes the offensive and never the defensive sale of an argument, if argument arises.
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People want to see that cable companies are already taking away market share in the phone business before the phone companies can take video share.
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I might move to Finland, at least for a while, to learn the language a bit better, 'cause you don't learn any language better than in the country itself.
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Obviously there's no way around discomfort, which is tucked into too many places in our lives. But it is possible to move beyond it.
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Most companies aim to get bigger. But beyond a certain point, bigness becomes synonymous with badness. Think of Big Pharma, Big Auto, Big Oil. Worse, if you are regularly described as one of the Big Four, Five, or Six in any business sector, you are probably already in the sights of regulators and lawmakers.
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If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.
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While knowledge may provide useful point of reference, it cannot become a force to guide the future.
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It represents a defensive move on the part of both companies
