Chris Whittle Quotes
I grew up assuming that I would be in public service. I never planned to be in business.
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Music is made up out of these building blocks. Studying how these blocks go together and what they consist of and the math of how it works - it's all the same stuff; it's just different aesthetics that we're talking about.
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Almost anything worth doing involves some measure of risk - from learning to ride a bike, moving to a new city, and certainly, starting your own business. The point is that no one has ever started a business or created a new product with a guarantee of success.
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When you put the pressure on yourself, it's not good. If you fight afraid to lose, you wind up not fighting that good.
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Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel.
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I'm not going to break up my family, not for a book.
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You have another little drink, and I'll have another little drink, and maybe we can work up some real family feeling here.
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I grew up a Detroit Tigers fan, and now to be an owner of the Dodgers is amazing.
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At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.
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I'm a really heavy sleeper. When I wake up I'm a terrible morning person.
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Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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A lot of my creative energy is spent coming up with a concept that, once I get it, I feel like it writes itself.
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I had popcorn all over the place, so I decided I might as well be in the Processing Business.
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Growing up in San Diego, I can remember going with my brother to see bands like Pennywise and NOFX - good punk bands that were fast and tight.
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The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
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If you have a line of business - I know this as a CEO - or if you have a teenager - I know this as a parent - who have a spending problem, what do you do? You quit giving them money.
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I grew up kind of self-supported, that kind of environment, because my parents both worked for airlines.
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Steven Spielberg was my idol growing up. I knew that all of his movies have a very specific message and point of view, and the always are really epic.
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I didn't have any success in show business until I was 30 to 31 years of age.
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I'm very excited to be teaming up with Merck for the 'Lets Go There' Campaign. It's a really important campaign to me because it's something that celebrates women.
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I mean to lead a simple life, to choose a simple shell I can carry easily - like a hermit crab. But I do not. I find that my frame of life does not foster simplicity. My husband and five children must make their way in the world. The life I have chosen as a wife and mother entrains a whole caravan of complications.
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Even money, thought Roger on the way back to his own office, is not a bad bet. Of course, it depends on the stakes.
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Is it security you want? There is no security at the top of the world.
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I am the drop that contains the ocean
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I grew up assuming that I would be in public service. I never planned to be in business.
