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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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.
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Many young adults I have communicated with - both in-person and over email - constantly apologize before stating their idea, or finish each sentence with a question. Unfortunately, doing so in business puts you at an immediate disadvantage with your boss and work colleagues.
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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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What kind of business world are we living in?
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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 have reviewed literally hundreds of dotcoms in my drive to bring Boomer Esiason Foundation onto the Internet, and have selected ClickThings as a partner because of the advanced technology it offers small business, and its understanding of the entrepreneurial spirit of the small business community.
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I don't fight for much, but when I fight for something, it's usually because I think I'm going to be right.
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That's my fun time so, to me, doing my homework, studying on what I do, watching the movies, listening to music, all that inspires me so I focus a lot on that and practice.
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Fat is your friend. The brain thrives on a fat-rich, low-carbohydrate diet.
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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.
