Doug McMillon Quotes
We're playing the long game. Our priority is to position our company for long-term success.
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I think people are going to like my new shoes. I like them. I had a lot of success with the one last year, but this year's shoe is going to be a little different, but at the same time it's going to be a little spin-off on last year's shoe.
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To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.
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It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.
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When I was president of the company, I said, 'Okay, I can do this - piece of cake.' Then when you are the CEO, the responsibilities multiply enormously because you worry about everything.
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Success should stem from entrepreneurial creativity, not political connectivity.
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When 'The Shadow of the Wind' became a success I had already been a working writer, I'd been through the ups and downs, I'd seen how it worked.
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Indians have very good engineering capabilities, and that is why, if an industry focuses on innovation, you will have a far greater chance of success, rather than the model which is based on just being a production machine.
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In married life three is company and two none.
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Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.
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Success is a high, but the way up is hard, and you have to give your all.
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We were ready to launch Barry White, but the record company wouldn't put it out. Said it wouldn't sell.
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You have to love what you do. And in order to do that, you have to search your soul to find out what it is that you really are about. And then when you find it, if you're lucky enough to be in a position to do what it is that you love, it becomes easy. I'm blessed that I ended up doing exactly what I wanted to do.
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Music has always been a huge passion in my life. I've just had such success with my acting that it's really been right alongside of it, and I've always been writing and playing and singing.
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I was already writing 'The Lost Symbol' when I started to realize 'The Da Vinci Code' would be big. The thing that happened to me and must happen to any writer who's had success is that I temporarily became very self-aware.
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I have been given permission to announce that I and others from 'All My Children' have been approached by the company Prospect Park, who bought 'AMC,' with the intention to move it online.
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Most people don't have so much talent that they can become a success all their own. We all need people to help us and lift us up.
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Follow your instincts. Do the kind of writing you love to do and do best. 'Stiff' was an oddball book - I mean, a funny book about cadavers? - and I worried that it would be too unconventional. In the end, that's what has made it a success, I think.
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People from all over the world want to be in New York. This rather simple idea took me a long time to learn.
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Health care is vital to all of us some of the time, but public health is vital to all of us all of the time
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Everyone has to be receptive to the decisions of the ANC because that is the political center. You have got to accept the decisions, and you also have to accept the direction that you are given by the ANC.
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We're playing the long game. Our priority is to position our company for long-term success.
