Elrey Borge Jeppesen Quotes
I didn't start the business to make a pile of money. I did it to preserve myself for old age.
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I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life.
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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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I feel very strongly that you shouldn't mix your emotions with business. When it comes to my emotions, I certainly don't mix them with my business.
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I try not to get involved in the business of prediction. It's a quick way to look like an idiot.
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Money was never the motivation. It never should be in sports.
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I learned a lot from Dick Wolf. I'll always remember playing that character because it was such a good character. It was great to be able to be a character like that for television. I think the thing that I'll bring from the whole experience, the whole 10 years, is I had never been interested in the television business before.
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So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for an hour bill and didn't have them until the night before we opened in Buffalo and money was no object!
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I just kept telling myself that ultimately, the money that my grandparents had put away to go into my college fund, that they were investing for me to go to school and get this education, it had to be worth something.
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I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
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I made the best business decision at 14 when I decided to get into acting. The worst was owning 2 homes at the same time.
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One of the things that's, I think, hard in television is that there's a certain sameness to a lot of television because you're working in a very constricted box, and the box is defined by the amount of money you have to spend and the amount of time you have to get ready.
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I never cared about money or fame, and I don't care now. I follow the groove, and money always follows.
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I worked with fantastic actors, fantastic directors. People I would never otherwise have met. Was I limited? Yes. Did I use it as I could have? No. But I was always ambivalent about Hollywood and what I wanted. And ambivalence in our business is no good for success.
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The one thing I know is, if I play good ball, things have tended to come along with it. Everything that I've ever done in my career has come off of playing good football. And so I realize I need to go out there, and I need to take care of my business; then everything else - all these cool, great things - come along with it.
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Indies are always an extra challenge. The time is shorter because you have less money to spend and fewer days to shoot.
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It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.
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In preparation for it, we need to have folks who are trained, we need facilities, equipment and supplies, that are going to be built into our society, and we are going to spend a lot of money on it.
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What we need to do is replace the entire tax code. I do not think it makes sense to say, 'Let's just grab money from, quote, the wealthy'... The issue is the tax code's rotten and we should start truly over with a simple code that is fair and transparent.
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The First Amendment was designed to allow for disruption of business as usual. It is not a quiet and subdued amendment or right.
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Anything can change in show business; you know how it goes, everything changes from one day to the other.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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It's about taking advantage of the opportunities you have right now, and right now we're in a position where you call somebody and they're willing to pick up and take the call because they're a fan, you have to take advantage of that and have a chance to capitalize on your ideas.
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I didn't start the business to make a pile of money. I did it to preserve myself for old age.
