Alfred P. Sloan Quotes
I hold that if companies are attacked simply because they are big then an attack on efficiency must be a corollary of that attack. If we penalize efficiency, how can we as a nation compete in the economy of the world at large?
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People who meet me think of Jill and transfer her strong qualities to me.
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For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.
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I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.
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If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
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A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.
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For someone who comes from my business background, getting fashion people aligned around certain things can be a challenge. In a way, the industry is so forward-looking. And yet, sometimes people in fashion are not open to change.
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
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Bands develop their own weird ways of doing things.
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I'm still having fun, and I'm doing something and I'm seeing the world! I wasn't massively ambitious, but I did always want to do the best I could do.
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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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My stepfather had a connection with The Second City and told me I should go there. I woke up in a cold sweat one night and said, 'I'm moving to Chicago.' That's how I went to Second City.
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Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again.
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I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
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Josh Brolin is fascinating to watch because he is just so effortless. It's like watching a really gifted athlete run, and I just didn't have that.
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So if I'm 36, and I have my 19-year-old self, I'm pulling him to the side and saying, 'Listen bruh, throwing on your Timbs and your fitted hat and strolling campus trying to get a girl to say yes, or going to the club hoping you bring a girl home, that's not the way to go about healthy relationships. You need to step back.'
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
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New York is such a diverse place in and of itself, it would be ridiculous to see it otherwise.
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I just try to get away with as much as I can. I don't think that's very radical in the art world.
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I was just a big guy running down with a big, deep pocket and little short stick putting it against my chest.
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The face of America's eviction epidemic is a mom with kids.
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I hold that if companies are attacked simply because they are big then an attack on efficiency must be a corollary of that attack. If we penalize efficiency, how can we as a nation compete in the economy of the world at large?
