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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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 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've never taken the steps to be 'successful': I've never had a manager or signed to a publishing house.
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If people really stopped and realized how much art and creative people move the world versus politics and religion, I mean it’s not even up for debate. An artist at least creates things, puts things into the world. Where as these other people are destroying things, taking things out of the world.'
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I held the feeling in my heart; the urge to discuss it died out. There was all the time in the world. In the endless repetition of other nights, other mornings, this moment, too, might become a dream.
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Once you know that every moment and every person and every situation has something to teach you, you're a student all day. You know it's the depth of your observation that is the issue - not how much the world has to show you.
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I believe that everyone has some huge talent in them; the really lucky ones discover what it is.
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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?