Marcus Lemonis Quotes
I became an entrepreneur as a child. I liked the art of the deal whether I was mowing lawns or selling candy or promoting clubs at the age of 16. I understood early on the importance of knowing my numbers and surrounding myself with the best people.
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When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.
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A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.
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Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
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As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the new philosophies of mechanism and rationalism correspondingly increased.
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A win for one is a win for all - and I'm not just saying that because Dumas did.
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All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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Now at 47, 48 I am expected to do ten times better work that I did when I was 24.
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I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?
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I would be lying if I told you that I hadn't had aspirations to run for a statewide office.
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For a lot of people, it's a massive deal to be on the front row at Fashion Week and look perfect. I don't go to be seen; I go to look at the collections and support my friends, like Henry, Giles and Jonathan Saunders. As much as I love clothes and shopping, it doesn't drive me.
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In a mature democracy, what is legal is decided by parliament... Our process is legitimised by parliament and by the ballot box.
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My philosophy is inverted Platonism: the further a thing is from true being, the purer, the lovelier, the better it is. Living inillusion as a goal!
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The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.
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I still get excited about it. I miss playing ball.
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The political dismemberment of these once British colonies from the parent island, though involving a valuable principle, and many possible results, would scarcely merit a yearly commemoration, even in this country, had it not been accompanied by other occurrences more novel, and far more important.
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I've been a strong financial and political supporter of, first, President Bush Sr. when he was running for president, and even when he ran for president a time or two and failed.
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I became an entrepreneur as a child. I liked the art of the deal whether I was mowing lawns or selling candy or promoting clubs at the age of 16. I understood early on the importance of knowing my numbers and surrounding myself with the best people.
