Alejandro Maldonado Quotes
When the business people get done with the arts, all that's left will be entertainment.
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Almost anything worth doing involves some measure of risk - from learning to ride a bike, moving to a new city, and certainly, starting your own business. The point is that no one has ever started a business or created a new product with a guarantee of success.
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I had the option of building a career in the U.S. Many of my friends who went at the time did not come back, but for me, building the family business and being with family was worth it. I became a general manager within four months, as I used my education to improve productivity and output.
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One of my personal plights in this business is about playing 'The Sassy Black Girl.'
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Getting into the residential investment business entails lots of renovation work.
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Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or with a knowledge of the canons of evidence in its own sphere.
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I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.
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Ukrainian business must really embrace global competition. We need to understand that competition for resources and clients is not with competitors from across the street or from another city, but with millions of businesses around the world.
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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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I owe a lot to my dad, just for having provided the wrestling business for us to get into.
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It is not true that I oppose government funding of the arts.
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The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability.
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My only loyalty is to what's best for business, not to any set of constituents.
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Being beautiful is not so fun when you're in a business with all men.
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YouTube has proven it can flourish in a model where there is more autonomy, and in that way I think it is an example and a potential model for other areas of the business.
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The business model - where books can be returned, and where a 50% sell-through is considered acceptable - is archaic and wasteful. Writers get small royalties, little say in how their books are marketed and sold, and simple things like cover and title approval are unheard of unless you're a huge bestseller.
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I need pity. I know what I feel. Great place and business in the world is not worth looking after.
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I have always gone about this business on the basis that one cannot have a partnership unless there is equity among partners. Equity, of course, is historically a British concept, but I think that it is one that we bring to the European Community.
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Somebody asked me the question not too long ago: 'Dave, do you think the music business has turned corrupt'. I said: 'Absolutely not - it has always been corrupt.
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The pharma industry is one of the few industries that comes up every year and brags about how much worse they got - like, now it costs $2 billion to make a drug, and it was a billion 5 years ago.
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It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
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When you learn to love your own company, you become far more careful about whom you spend your time with.
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A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.
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The best actors instinctively feel out what the other actors need, and they just accommodate it.
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When the business people get done with the arts, all that's left will be entertainment.
