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
  • Beginning
  • Ideas
  • 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

• I can't lie - I love talking to the people at my shows. I'm so grateful to all my fans. I couldn't do it for this long without them. So if they want to come past to say hi and whatnot, then it's part of my job to talk to them - and you know, it might be the best part of my job, too.

  

  Chuck Brown
  • People
  • Long
  • Job

• I come from a family of teachers, and I believe ideas matter; the good ones deserve reverence, and the bad ones, defiance.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Family

• There was great comraderie among players and coaches. We enjoyed the time we were together... road trips were fun. I don't know that there was one moment that stood out among all the good times we had.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • Time
  • Good
  • Great

• I'm always happier and a better actor when I can really lose myself in a character and become somebody else.

  

  Kevin Bacon
  • Character

• One thing I have that the majority of other designers don't is humor. That's distinctly my approach, and it was distinctly Franco Moschino's, too.

  

  Jeremy Scott

• 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