Folorunsho Alakija Quotes
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I did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to it.
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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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When your co-stars are 9-month-old babies, you fall in love. You start thinking, When am I going to have my own?
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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'm based here in L.A., but I think in the future I might consider settling down in Malaysia when I start a family.
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Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
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I've found that men I've dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I've found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren't competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been... challenging.
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At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.
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I would love a bowl of Frosties, but I start the day with something healthier like a bowl of yoghurt or berries.
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I had popcorn all over the place, so I decided I might as well be in the Processing Business.
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You find that you can have the best business in the most exciting industry, but if the execution, if the torch-holder, if the value-creator isn't there, then we don't make it happen.
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I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of.
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When I came to Congress, like our first panel, small business people, 64 percent of the people had health insurance. We'd buy it. Now, we're down to about 34 percent. That's why we have to do something on health care in this country because the cost is killing us.
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I didn't grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, I've never wanted to speak to an all-white audience.
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I don't want to say I took myself too seriously, but I put a lot of pressure on myself coming out of school. I saw so many people leave the business behind, certain opportunities disappear for folks who had to go into other professions. That kind of terrified me. As a result, I wanted things to happen really quickly.
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PepsiCo is a $63 billion company. Half the company is snacks, and half the company is beverages. We have a glorious snacks business and a glorious beverage business. We are extremely profitable. We are growing.
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My father was a misanthrope who slept all day and stayed up all night so that he wouldn't have to see people. He ran a business with a large staff but would go there at night and leave things for them to do during the day when he wasn't there.
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But the business side of it, as with most creative things, there is no room for business. It is about art. It's not about marketing.
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I think for any small business that's bootstrapped, the overwhelming challenge initially is getting to positive cash flow.
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Fulfilling what you start is why you start something.
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We do not have many intellectuals who can speak out for us internationally. We have no writers who are recognized, respected and loved outside the Arab world.
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At Marshall Field in Chicago, I had them take a big bed into the menswear department, one with black sheets. I'd get in bed wearing a nightcap, and my fans would get in bed with me, one at a time, and I'd sign their memorabilia. And then I'd give them a free pint of Ben & Jerry's.
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What, am I supposed to run around in a little red cape and save the world?
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Just start small with what you have and you can grow the business.
