Alan Mulally Quotes
I sleep very well, although sometimes it's hard to go to sleep 'cos I'm so excited about the business performance review the following day.
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You have to be un-comfortably comfortable in this business. There's always somebody else who wants what you have.
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I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.
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I didn't get here for my acting... but I love show business.
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I think movie and television companies are in the business of making money, and if you have a franchise, eventually you'll want to exploit that franchise and revisit it. So I assume at some point someone will do another story in the 'Lost' world.
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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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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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Our teachers are operating just as effective leaders in the business world do. They set a vision that most people think is crazy. They convince the kids why it's important to accomplish the goal. And they are totally relentless.
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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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Though there are some notable exceptions, by and large the persistent ranting of the Warren Commission critics, some of whom were screaming the word 'conspiracy' before the fatal bullet had even come to rest, came to remind me, as H. L. Mencken said in a different context, of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights.
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Making $30,000 on my first business deal was exciting, but not as exciting as the sudden knowledge that I did not have to work for anyone again.
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Once you wake up and smell the coffee, it's hard to go back to sleep.
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Ben Stiller, who I love and who is a friend and is such an incredible actor - he's hilarious, obviously, but I thought his performance in 'Greenberg' was extraordinary.
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I don't sleep at night at all. Making movies is a marathon. I'm a good 100-yard-dash guy.
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
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There's show and there's business. Business is a whole other beat.
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Actually, I have another record I made with them in 1976, but I've had such a bad experience with record companies, because I keep my head so much in music and not in business.
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I learned a lot from Dick Wolf. I'll always remember playing that character because it was such a good character. It was great to be able to be a character like that for television. I think the thing that I'll bring from the whole experience, the whole 10 years, is I had never been interested in the television business before.
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I am obsessively bent on quality - to an unhealthy degree.
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The bond between a parent and child is the primary bond, the foundation for the rest of the child's life. The presence or absence of this bond determines much about the child's resiliency and what kind of adult they will grow up to be.
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We must do everything we can to be more aggressive in confronting Syria about what they are doing in Iraq.
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When the gate drops, it's time to try and execute the best you can.
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Oddly, for a book to do well merely because people like it is surprisingly rare.
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I sleep very well, although sometimes it's hard to go to sleep 'cos I'm so excited about the business performance review the following day.
