Aubrey McClendon Quotes

I just wanted to be a businessman, and to me, the best way to understand business was to be an accountant.

Aubrey McClendon

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• My finances have been decimated by a group of people, such as my ex-attorney, my ex-business manager, and an estate planner, specifically. And they have conspired together to - to co-op my corporations, put in trustees without my knowledge.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • People
  • Business
  • Together

• 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.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • People
  • Business
  • Nothing

• I had parents in the business and they made sure that the art was the biggest concern.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Art
  • Business
  • Parents

• My parents never got carried away with the extraneous elements of being in the business.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Business
  • Parents
  • Never

• Most of my books begin with a nap on my couch here, when I dream up characters and story lines, and then I write on my laptop in the recliner and handle the business side of email at my desk, which is sagging in the middle - maybe from so many words?

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Up
  • Business
  • Dream

• I love design in general, the creativity. Whether it is golf courses, my apparel line, ads we do or our business with AriZona, design is fun.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Business
  • Fun
  • Design

• You may grow very quickly the first two years and then watch the business decline, unless you really start selling product at any price range with various degrees of quality.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • May
  • Business
  • Quality

• I didn't plan on going into show business. Show business picked me. And it's been fun. One of the best things about being in show business is people think they know me, and they feel like they grew up with me.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • People
  • Up
  • Business

• Giving someone a one-time stimulus check, or a one-time tax cut that expires doesn't allow the predictability that business needs.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Time
  • Business
  • Giving

• Touring is really a pretty lonely business.

  

  Eddy Arnold
  • Business
  • Pretty
  • Lonely

• When I came back to India after Harvard Business School, I started as a lawyer and as a trade union leader.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • School
  • Business
  • Leader

• To me, the newspaper business was a way to learn about life and how things worked in the real world and how people spoke. You learn all the skills - you learn to listen, you learn to take notes - everything you use later as a novelist was valuable training in the newspaper world. But I always wanted to write novels.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• Slater's a big star and he's been in the business a long time. He's always in a good mood and easygoing but he takes his character very seriously.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

  

  A. C. Benson
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Business

• Time and time again, small businesses testify before the Committee on Small Business that they simply want the government to 'get out of the way.'

  

  Sam Graves
  • Time
  • Business
  • Small

• I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Important
  • Business
  • Hold

• I make it my business to see or do something cultural in every place I go to. If you don't, you'll get into a state of constant despair.

  

  Jack Reynor
  • Business
  • See
  • Place

• Dealing with those personalities and the people who run this music thing has been most challenging. It's hard to really communicate things to people who run a business yet forget the nature of the business. They only look at the bottom line and the financial return, you know, they forget what it is they're packaging. It's art.

  

  Q-Tip
  • People
  • Music
  • Art

• It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Business
  • Better
  • Start

• Hollywood can be a very stinging town. They say it's a forgiving business. It's not that forgiving.

  

  Jeff Conaway
  • Business

• I think people are used to seeing actors be wide open and desperately giving of themselves, and while I do that on a movie set as much as I can, it's so unnatural for me to do it on television, in interviews, in anything like that. I also don't find that my process as an actor is really anyone else's business.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Business

• As any of us approaches middle age, we inevitably come up against our limitations: the realization that certain dearly-held fantasies may not be realized; that circumstances have thwarted us; that even with intention and will we may not be able to set our ship back on the course we'd planned.

  

  Claire Messud
  • Up
  • May
  • Age

• When you start with next to nothing, all you've got is a lot of thought, a lot of innovation, figuring new ways to do things without using a lot of money.

  

  John Paul DeJoria
  • Money
  • Innovation

• I just wanted to be a businessman, and to me, the best way to understand business was to be an accountant.

  

  Aubrey McClendon
  • Business