George Katona Quotes

Business is like sex. When it's good, it's very, very good; when it's not so good, it's still good.

George Katona

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• We have this idea that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.

  

  Dan Pink
  • Better
  • Performance
  • Sales

• We are like petri dishes, where we can innovate, but we want to do it carefully and thoughtfully.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Want
  • Like
  • Where

• Today we have big, crude instruments guided by intelligent surgeons, and we have little, stupid molecules of drugs that get dumped into the body, diffuse around and interfere with things as best they can. At present, medicine is unable to heal anything.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
  • Today
  • Best
  • Present

• Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Wisdom
  • Everything
  • Create

• I have a 'Mailer-Breslin and the 51st State' poster, and a neon-pink sign of Raoul's in SoHo, one of my favorite restaurants.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Favorite
  • Pink
  • Sign

• Going out for a meal, especially for young urbanites, is less about socialising over enjoyable food than about enjoying food as a way to socialise.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Way
  • Food
  • Young

• Balancing my career between two industries has never been an issue. I started with a Telugu film and have a soft corner for the south industry, though I've grown up speaking Hindi. I don't think language can be a barrier when it comes to acting. And, since I come from a theatre background, I'm used to memorizing my lines.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • Up
  • Career
  • Language

• If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Perfect
  • Humility
  • Only

• What really promotes business in this country is liberty, not demand for information.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Country
  • Business
  • Information

• I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing... getting back to reality.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • House
  • Reality
  • Acting

• With instrumental music, it is traditionally hard to get exposure.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Hard
  • Exposure

• Sometimes I lose a whole morning waiting on journalists and other people who look for me. But I always find some time for reading, talking to my friends and feeling what is happening in this world.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• I was never very happy at school.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • School
  • Happy
  • Never

• I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Teacher
  • Politics
  • Massage

• Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Ideas
  • Beginning
  • Points

• In a coma, you don't dream,you just hope that someone sits with you.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Hope
  • Dream

• If freedom is to be saved and enlarged, poverty must be ended. There is no other solution.

  

  Aneurin Bevan
  • Freedom
  • Poverty

• If I were brave enough to say so, I'd like to think that I had written some poems that people are not going to forget.

  

  Peter Davison
  • People
  • Brave

• IE6 was a bad experience for consumers, but it was a terrible for developers. Not only it was technically bad, but it was closed, and you couldn't do much with it.

  

  Mitchell Baker
  • Experience
  • Consumers
  • Developers

• My kids are coming up in a different time then me. Interracial couples are of the norm. With me, it's about making sure my kids understand the importance of education and having opportunities that I didn't. My goal as a parent is to make sure they don't take what they have for granted.

  

  Kevin Hart
  • Up
  • Time
  • Different

• My mom and dad always taught acting, so instead of getting me babysitters, they would just bring me to class.

  

  Blake Lively
  • Dad
  • Mom

• Everyone knew I didn't want to do it, but I had to, ... and I don't particularly want to do more.

  

  Kelly Clarkson
  • Knew

• In the studio, I do try to have a thought in my head, so that it's not like a blank stare.

  

  Cindy Crawford

• Business is like sex. When it's good, it's very, very good; when it's not so good, it's still good.

  

  George Katona
  • Good
  • Business
  • Very