Carol Bartz Quotes
Steve Jobs came back to Apple in 1997 - the iPod came out 4 years later. 3 years after that is the first time his market cap grew. It took 7 years.
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I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
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Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
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To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
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I don't think there is much value in trying to use the moon as a base to go to Mars. That's going into one gravity belt and having to get back out of it again. And the moon doesn't have a lot to offer as a resource base.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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Predominantly I'm an Adidas guy who walks around in sports gear all the time because there's always a ball right next to me somewhere. I do a lot of sports, but I do enjoy wearing a lot of suits.
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To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.
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I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.
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Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went down, although sales have gone up again in this country a bit and also the big companies, because they're so big, they need big sales really so they're not really interested.
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There's more student debt than credit card debt! Everywhere I go, I run into young people trying to build careers while they keep shelling out money on their education loans. If the economy is looking for a new generation of home-buyers, I can't imagine they'll get it from these folks.
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Seasonal flu is now a pandemic that lasts for years and years because you've got so many people that it's jumping back between northern and southern hemispheres and moving itself around the world. By the time it gets back to where it started, it's changed sufficiently so that people are no longer immune.
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People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
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Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.
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The world is a global economy. I thought, 'It's a bummer we don't have a unifying currency.' Then I saw Bitcoin had already had a crash and had the resistance to recover. The community was strong enough to push it through again. That's really exciting.
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I don't know if this classifies as a video game, but I have a terrible obsession with Angry Birds.
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One of the trickiest things about 'Game of Thrones' is just seeding those first couple of episodes with that basic information that people need to know, both about the world and the ground rules of the world, and the relationships between the characters, as far as who means what to whom and why.
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People ask why I always play crazy people and free spirits. I guess it is because I like to have fun. But I am more ambitious than your average free spirit. This job is hard enough that, without drive and hard work, you will never make it work.
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I play the real instruments. I don't waste my time with anything else.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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My guitar only has five strings 'cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there.
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Talk about a struggling artist having to work against enormous odds ... But I love movies so much, so I'm going to do it.
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Steve Jobs came back to Apple in 1997 - the iPod came out 4 years later. 3 years after that is the first time his market cap grew. It took 7 years.
