Adena Friedman Quotes
To be the best CEO you can be, you have to be passionate about the business you're running. And I have true passion for the financial markets and the financial industry.
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I give all the glory to God. It's kind of a win-win situation. The glory goes up to Him and the blessings fall down on me.
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Salesmen always need something to sell.
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When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
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One definition of noir is where a not-so-good man or woman tries to touch something good - and fails.
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I wasn't a ladies' man.
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For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.
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If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
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As cliched as it sounds, I'm taking every day as it comes.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.
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I can tell you Kristen Hager is one of my all time favorite people to work with ever and one of the greatest scene partners, and I'm such a lucky guy.
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Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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Any time you bring sexuality into the comics pages, you have to brace for pushback.
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I want people to learn what democracy means.
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For some reason, people with comedy, any time they can detect a pattern, it kind of freaks them out. 'Those guys are always together!' Yeah, they're a comedy team. Anything they can recognize as a pattern they think is a hole.
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Man takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes its law from the Tao. The law of the Tao is its being what it is.
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What happens in the music business is that if you step out of your little spot to do something else, the sand falls right into where you stood and you're gone, you're history.
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People are so ready to cut you down if you take a risk and leave your comfort zone.
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Never stop smiling not even when you're sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.
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One thing I've been thinking about is taking the social issues out of national politics. For example, if Georgia wanted abortion and Alabama didn't, that's going to be up to the people in Georgia. I can't sway them. Would I give them advice not to? Absolutely. Would I say it's wrong? Yes.
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Losses have propelled me to even bigger places, so I understand the importance of losing. You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner. It's in any game that you're in - a business game or whatever - you can't get complacent.
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When I was first introduced to CrossFit, I found it to be the hardest workout that I'd ever done. It wiped the floor with me, and I fell in love with it immediately. The results that I have seen in my strength and physicality have been unparalleled to any other things I have ever done in my more than 20 years in the fitness business.
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To be the best CEO you can be, you have to be passionate about the business you're running. And I have true passion for the financial markets and the financial industry.
