Cory Trepanier Quotes
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I don't know how many people have ever seen the National Guard break in somewhere, but they mean business.
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Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term.
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Hard work is not why I have been successful as a model.
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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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The year 2013 has been very difficult, with a lot of headwinds in almost every region and every business.
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Traditional credentialing really doesn't have a lot of predictive value to if people will be successful.
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The biggest misconception people have about me is that when they see how young I am, they think, 'Oh, this guy must have always wanted to be in politics; his parents must have been politically connected.' I'm a finance major and always intended to go into business.
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Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.
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'The Driver' wasn't commercially successful at the time, but when I was a teenager, I had no knowledge of that.
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I didn't have any success in show business until I was 30 to 31 years of age.
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I am not a celebrity. I work with celebrities, and it is very difficult. When a celebrity wears a dress, it's good for business, so brands fight for the red carpet. Me? I don't like it, because fashion becomes a job about dressing celebrities. And it's a bit boring.
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In the '80s and '90s, China went through a giant change. It needed all resources. At the time, I was in the recycled paper business, and I realized the China market was a blank slate.
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They planned this fair to bring business to Chicago, into the Loop. But you could have fired a cannon down state street and hit nobody, because everybody was out at the fair.
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I became a film director, but I wasn't successful with my first couple of films, so I had to turn to becoming a film critic to make a living.
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It is surprising how little most small business values the customers. A positive feedback from the customer is critical to your business, and what's more important is their referral.
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Ryan Giggs will go down as the most successful British footballer of all time and I cannot see anyone ever overtaking him. He's on the brink of his 13th league title, after all.
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You have to respect your parents. They are giving you an at-bat. If you're an entrepreneur and go into the family business, you want to grow fast. Patience is important. But respect the other party... My dad and I pulled it off because we really respect each other.
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Right now I'm reading every fashion magazine I can find. As a shoe designer, I feel it's my responsibility to learn as much as I can about the business, past and present.
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My parents armed me with an amazing sense of humor, and it's what you need when, well, it's what anyone needs in this world.
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The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.
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I've been in three sort of... I mean, I'd say they're groundbreaking series, if only because of the creators. One was 'Max Headroom', another was 'The Larry Sanders Show', and the third was 'Arrested Development'.
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A lot of times, real life is more surreal than writing.
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Hospitals are great places, and you can learn from them, but you don't necessarily need to go in anytime you get the sniffles. And maybe you shouldn't treat pregnancy as a disease.
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