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.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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We are like petri dishes, where we can innovate, but we want to do it carefully and thoughtfully.
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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.
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Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect.
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What really promotes business in this country is liberty, not demand for information.
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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.
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With instrumental music, it is traditionally hard to get exposure.
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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.
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I was never very happy at school.
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I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.
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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.
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In a coma, you don't dream,you just hope that someone sits with you.
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If freedom is to be saved and enlarged, poverty must be ended. There is no other solution.
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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.
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I can walk down the street and nobody knows who I am.
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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
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Whatever America's founders believed about Christianity - and they believed a wide range of things - they clearly rejected the idea of an established church.
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Texas is a country in its own. It's made up of half Mexico/half United States but completed mixed. I don't mean to draw a generalization but it is a place, a territory, that's really made up of all these encounters, you know?
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The world I want to live in is a world where everybody is a bit more uncertain about their arguments and is a bit more open to other people's arguments. I think that we can engage ideas without ad hominem attacks.
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Business is like sex. When it's good, it's very, very good; when it's not so good, it's still good.
