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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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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Touring is really a pretty lonely business.
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I'm still enjoying discovering more designers and getting to play dress-up in a bigger way than I ever have before.
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I am prepared to work hard enough to win. It's basically up to me.
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I don't really know a lot of famous people. I've met a lot of famous people. If I ran into Tom Hanks today, I would have to remind him who I was and he would then remember me. But he wouldn't come up to me and say, 'Hi Dave!'
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Active management leads to lots of poor investor behavior. It sends people chasing after whoever has the hot hand at the moment.
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Humans are built for endurance, not speed. We're awful sprinters compared to every other animal. We try to run our races as if they were speed races, but they are not. They're endurance races. Even a marathon, the way it's run now, it's not an endurance contest.
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I grew up assuming that I would be in public service. I never planned to be in business.
