Brian Monaco (Brian J. Monaco) Quotes
So just talking sync, being the size that we are and the catalogue that we have, we’re everybody’s first phone call. Which is really wonderful in the business, but it’s what you can do after that. Can you execute on the creative that they’re sending?
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In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the world.
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I don't really read 'business books,' and I didn't think 'The Paradox of Choice' was a business book. I'm very surprised and gratified that the business world thought it was one.
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During the course of my football and business careers, I have had the great honor of meeting and associating with many outstanding leaders.
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The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.
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If you have a line of business - I know this as a CEO - or if you have a teenager - I know this as a parent - who have a spending problem, what do you do? You quit giving them money.
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Fashion is always seen as somewhat frivolous and self-indulgent. And I think people on the inside maybe don't see or understand how exciting and diverse a business it is.
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When I came back to India after Harvard Business School, I started as a lawyer and as a trade union leader.
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I spend 90 percent of my time saying no, and my accountant yells at me for it, but when I started in this business, I wanted my career to have legs.
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I've always been one for show business. I like performing, and I used to get criticized for having production value. But now it's all that! People need to get what they pay for! Otherwise, just listen to recorded music.
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It is very important that a leader in the hotel industry be both creative, I think, and compassionate.
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They call David O. Russell the actor whisperer because he can get stuff out of actors that maybe some other directors can't.
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Kumar Mangalam Birla is one of the most respected business persons.
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Every small business will give you an entrepreneurial way of looking at things. I guarantee you that for every plant that closes, if you gave it to one small-business person in that community, he or she would find a way to make it work. The small-business attitude is you always find a way to make it work.
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The music business is filled with some nice people but a lot of strange people, so when you come across someone who's really genuine at an environment as bizarre as an awards show, you typically gravitate to them.
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War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist.
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Whenever you're at a poker table - and you're betting all of your chips - you're worried, you're scared. Is it the right play? Have I thought through all the angles? That's what stinks about life and business in general. If I had to calculate 100% certainty on every deal I did, I literally would do zero deals.
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The most successful cultural diplomacy strategy integrates people-to-people or arts/culture/media-to-people interactions into the basic business of diplomacy. The programs in Afghanistan, Egypt, and Iran all contribute to core goals of U.S. policy in those countries.
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There are pros and cons of experience. A con is that you can't look at the business with a fresh pair of eyes and as objectively as if you were a new CEO. Fire yourself on a Friday night and come in on Monday morning as if a search firm put you there as a turn-around leader. Can you be objective and make the bold change?
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Every movie goes through that U-shape where you start with 'Oh that's a great idea. I love it.' Everything's possible and then you face 'Oh, we can't do that, and that's impossible, and that's a bad choice.' You go the practicality of it. And then you come up to 'Great.' But that middle part is when you don't have results yet.
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My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma.
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The only difference between 'propaganda' and 'education,' really, is in the point of view. The advocacy of what we believe in is education. The advocacy of what we don't believe in is propaganda.
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I think I have a basic sound aesthetic that is in most of what I do.
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The world is poor because her fortune is buried in the sky and all her treasure maps are of the earth.
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So just talking sync, being the size that we are and the catalogue that we have, we’re everybody’s first phone call. Which is really wonderful in the business, but it’s what you can do after that. Can you execute on the creative that they’re sending?
