Aubrey McClendon Quotes
I just wanted to be a businessman, and to me, the best way to understand business was to be an accountant.
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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.
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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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I had parents in the business and they made sure that the art was the biggest concern.
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My parents never got carried away with the extraneous elements of being in the business.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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Giving someone a one-time stimulus check, or a one-time tax cut that expires doesn't allow the predictability that business needs.
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Touring is really a pretty lonely business.
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When I came back to India after Harvard Business School, I started as a lawyer and as a trade union leader.
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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.
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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.
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One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
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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.'
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I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.
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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.
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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.
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It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.
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When I write a book, I write a book for myself; the reaction is up to the reader. It's not my business whether people like or dislike it.
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If you take 10,000 people at random, 9,999 have something in common: their interests in business lie on or near the Earth's surface. The odd one out is an astronomer, and I am one of that strange breed.
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I would like to think there's some purity in us, yeah. Naive - y'know, purposely naive.
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Doing business and doing good are not mutually exclusive, and it is our responsibility to prove this every day anew.
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Users do not care about what is inside the box, as long as the box does what they need done.
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I just wanted to be a businessman, and to me, the best way to understand business was to be an accountant.
