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"Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs"
Quote by -Henry Ford
"Work is futile if we cannot utilise the experience we collect in one life in the next."
Quote by -Henry Ford
"There isn't a person anywhere who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can."
Quote by -Henry Ford
"The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance."
Quote by -Michael Korda
"The only thing I would change is during the summer - when I was working my summer job, if I was smart, I would have taken flying lessons at Auburn."
Quote by -Bo Jackson
"Anyone who writes an autobiographical work at the age of 34 is, at best, presumptuous. It occurred to me that it was time to set the record straight."
Quote by -Jessica Savitch
"I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise."
Quote by -Jessica Savitch
"It is my belief that one's salary is between an individual and the IRS."
Quote by -Jessica Savitch
"In the beginning, my mother humored me when I told her I wanted to be a reporter."
Quote by -Jessica Savitch
"When I left 'The Garry Moore Show,' I signed a 10-year contract with CBS."
Quote by -Carol Burnett
"I don't watch sitcoms. I really don't. My problem with them is they take so long to film them that there's no spontaneity. I want to see that."
Quote by -Carol Burnett
"You mustn't think of the Universe as a wilderness. It hasn't been that for billions of years," he said. "Think of it more as... ..cultivated."
Quote by -Carl Sagan
"When for so long you can't get a job for reasons that seem specious, you you finally do have it, you are constantly afraid of losing it."
Quote by -Jessica Savitch
"One characteristic of winners is they always look upon themselves as a do it yourself project."
Quote by -Denis Waitley
"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism."
Quote by -Carl Sagan
"I am just at that stage of wondering where I go from here. I came into this business almost by accident, but now it has become serious. What started as a bit of fun, something to do other than be a model, has taken on a different career curve. I have been forced to ask where that curve is going to end up."
Quote by -Cameron Diaz
"I think that anything that you do, any accomplishment that you make, you have to work for. And I've worked very hard in the last ten years of my life, definitely, and I can tell you that hard work pays off. It's not just a cliche."
Quote by -Cameron Diaz
"I don't want to go to work and get into bed with someone else, not even Tom Cruise. It's not like I enjoy it."
Quote by -Cameron Diaz
"For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice"
Quote by -John Burroughs
"Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee."
Quote by -Cameron Diaz
"You have to really be able to trust the director. It's about the filmmaker and whether or not I'm going to be able to have a relationship with them and want to follow them down that road, wherever it may lead."
Quote by -Cameron Diaz
"I don't want to go to work and get into bed with someone else, not even Tom Cruise. It's not like I enjoy it."
Quote by -Cameron Diaz
"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours"
Quote by -Dale Carnegie
"Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date."
Quote by -Dale Carnegie
"Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves."
Quote by -Dale Carnegie
"Even if I loved the script, the director has to be right because it's all about the filmmaker. It's their vision. They're the ones that go back into the editing room and reassemble the film."
Quote by -Cameron Diaz
"It's such a commitment, making a film, you're really dedicated, it's your life, that's all you do for that period of your life."
Quote by -Cameron Diaz
"I know what it's like to struggle for cash. When I went to drama school, I worked as a chambermaid to make ends meet."
Quote by -Dawn French
"It was fantastic to work in Cornwall partly because my family live there "so "I was able to do lots of visiting and eat lots of cake. They live all over Cornwall and all over Devon."
Quote by -Dawn French
"I had to wrestle daily with both my inadequacy and my uncontrollable jealousy. I didn't want to kill her, but hoped someone else might do the job for me."
Quote by -David Sedaris
"Clatter of a typewriter suggests that you're actually building something."
Quote by -David Sedaris
"In other parts of the country people tried to stay together for the sake of the children. In New York they tried to work things out for the sake of the apartment."
Quote by -David Sedaris
"After I did 'Orchids,' I enrolled back in film school and did a million and a half workshops and worked with great professors and people, trying to hopefully get better."
Quote by -Bryce Dallas
"Of course any kind of film process has ups and downs and days where you're stuck and have breakthroughs."
Quote by -Bryce Dallas
“To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.”
Quote by -Abraham Maslow
“I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.”
Quote by -Abraham Maslow
“The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become. ”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“In regards to the price of commodities, the rise of wages operates as simple interest does, the rise of profit operates like compound interest. Our merchants and masters complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the price and lessening the sale of goods. They say nothing concerning the bad effects of high profits. They are silent with regard to the pernicious effects of their own gains. They complain only of those of other people.” ― Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
Quote by -Adam Smith
The man of system, on the contrary, is apt to be very wise in his own conceit; and is often so enamoured with the supposed beauty of his own ideal plan of government, that he cannot suffer the smallest deviation from any part of it. He goes on to establish it completely and in all its parts, without any regard either to the great interests, or to the strong prejudices which may oppose it. He seems to imagine that he can arrange the different members of a great society with as much ease as the hand arranges the different pieces upon a chess-board. He does not consider that the pieces upon the chess-board have no other principle of motion besides that which the hand impresses upon them; but that, in the great chess-board of human society, every single piece has a principle of motion of its own, altogether different from that which the legislature might chuse to impress upon it. If those two principles coincide and act in the same direction, the game of human society will go on easily and harmoniously, and is very likely to be happy and successful. If they are opposite or different, the game will go on miserably, and the society must be at all times in the highest degree of disorder.”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“The value of any commodity, therefore, to the person who possesses it, and who means not to use or consume it himself, but to exchange it for other commodities, is equal to the quantity of labour which it enables him to purchase or command. Labour, therefore, is the real measure of the exchangeable value of all commodities. The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“... the typical worker who through the whole of his life...pursues the idea of a certain artificial and elegant repose which he may never arrive at, for which he sacrifices a real tranquility...It is this deception which rouses and keeps in continual motion the industry of mankind.”
Quote by -Adam Smith