Bob Myers Quotes
When a crisis is unfolding, you don't think of it as competing for time and resources. Everyone needs to stretch--keeping focused on running the business and doing what needs to be done in the face of intense need. You have to do more.
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Business is a battlefield. You need to be able to go to battle with your team members. Like the military. Know them, trust them, and know who you're working with.
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Your mind is a magnet. You don't attract what you need or what you want; you attract who you are. And I love who I am!
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Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.
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The markets are much more interested in America's long-term trajectory than they are in feeling that there is an acute short-term crisis.
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For all of my fortune, there are many with misfortune that need a hand.
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Couture has copied my things for years, in addition to countless other costume designers, claiming theirs were the original ideas. It's all part of the business, unfortunately.
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'The Ecologist' has lost money from the day it was launched in 1970, and will continue until the last edition is printed. It was never set up as a business venture. It was set up as a campaign, and like all good campaigns, it costs. Its various backers have, over the years, been happy to pay that cost.
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My father was a misanthrope who slept all day and stayed up all night so that he wouldn't have to see people. He ran a business with a large staff but would go there at night and leave things for them to do during the day when he wasn't there.
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But the business side of it, as with most creative things, there is no room for business. It is about art. It's not about marketing.
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We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.
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I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.
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The thing about this business is that you always end up finding these amazing stories and these amazing people who make amazing films. I just want to work with good people and keep challenging myself with different kinds of characters.
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My having HIV has no bearing on my business.
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Being beautiful is not so fun when you're in a business with all men.
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The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.
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This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it.
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Africans need to be kicked, that's the only thing they understand.
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I want to start my own airplane business. I'm going to buy two Dakotas, paint them up in war colours and do, er, nostalgia trips to Arnhem - you know, where the old paratroopers used to go - and charge them about 20 quid a time.
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Aaron Spelling always had his finger on the pulse of pop culture, he knew what the public wanted to see. He was one of the most loyal men in this business and believed in me at a time in my career when no one else would.
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You can spend your life trying to be popular, and that's a tricky business. You can just try to be true to yourself.
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I have no sense of a model or predecessor when I write a memoir: For me, the form exists as a method of processing material that retains too many connections to life to be approached strictly and aesthetically. A memoir is a risk, a one-off, a bastard child.
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When a crisis is unfolding, you don't think of it as competing for time and resources. Everyone needs to stretch--keeping focused on running the business and doing what needs to be done in the face of intense need. You have to do more.
