Starting Quotes - Page 38

• I wasn't that interested in the dollars-and-cents part of business. My interest in starting Mary Kay Inc. was to offer women opportunities that didn't exist anywhere else.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Business, Opportunity, Dollars

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• Each time you decide to grow again, you realize you're starting at the bottom of another ladder.

  Ken Rosenthal

  Challenges, Ladders, Realizing

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• I've kept journals at many times in my life starting from when I was about 13 or 14. But it's boring and contrived to keep a journal every day. Better to write as the mood strikes.

  Erica Jong

  Writing, Diaries, Boring

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• Yes, there is no doubt that paper is patient and as I don't intend to show this cardboard-covered notebook, bearing the proud name of "diary," to anyone, unless I find a real friend, boy or girl, probably nobody cares. And now I come to the root of the matter, the reason for my starting a diary: it is that I have no such real friend.

  Anne Frank

  Notebook, Girl, Real

  Anne Frank, General Press (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.13, GENERAL PRESS

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• All food starting with p is comfort food: pasta, potato chips, pretzels, peanut butter, pastrami, Pizza, pastry.

  Sara Paretsky

  Food, Peanut Butter, Comfort

  Sara Paretsky (2005). “Killing Orders”, Signet

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• Talent is only a starting point in business. You've got to keep working that talent.

  Irving Berlin

  Talent, Starting Point

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• Instead of working hard to keep their share of a shrinking pie, or working even harder to make sure the industry stays as is, I think the most essential thing legacy book industry players can do is set up independent ventures with great people and little interference and work really hard to put themselves out of business by starting at the bottom, not by reinforcing the top.

  Seth Godin

  Book, Independent, Player

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• A lot of people in television who've had successful shows claim the 'Roseanne' show as their starting place, and I'm really proud of that.

  Roseanne Barr

  Successful, People, Television

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• There is no point in starting your own business unless you do it out of a sense of frustration.

  Richard Branson

  Frustration, No Point, Own Business

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• I'm passionate and I travel the world not just as a tourist but to understand cultures... I've lived with Masai tribe... I travel the world and bring it back in the form of a research book that would become the starting point for the collection.

  John Galliano

  Book, Tourists, Culture

  "Girl Least Likely To: 30 years of fashion, fasting and Fleet Street". Book by Liz Jones, July 4, 2013.

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• No author can create a character out of nothing. He must have a model to give him a starting point; but then his imagination goes to work, he builds him up, adding a trait here, a trait there, which his model did not possess.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Writing, Character, Giving

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• When I am starting a new game, I have to program it for the Apple, because I want to get all of the markets.

  Bill Budge

  Games, Apples, Want

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• Being a startup entrepreneur is not for everybody and it’s not the only desirable career choice. I also know that many people have families and cost obligations that don’t allow the kinds of financial risks associated with starting a company. And for others the hours, stresses and sacrifices in personal relationships are not worth it.

  Mark Suster

  Stress, Sacrifice, Careers

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• When Paul and I were first friends, starting in the sixth grade and seventh grade, we would sing a little together and we would make up radio shows and become disc jockeys on our home wire recorder. And then came rock and roll.

  Art Garfunkel

  Home, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  "Song Talk Interview". Interview with Paul Zollo, www.artgarfunkel.com. 1990.

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• I'm always good for starting a bit of a tune and the first verse, but after that I just can never go anywhere. It takes me years, that's why I'm so slow.

  Ringo Starr

  Years, Tunes, Firsts

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• Every photo, every 'ONCE' in time is also the beginning of a story starting 'once upon a time...' Every photo is the first frame of a movie.

  Wim Wenders

  Once Upon A Time, Stories, Firsts

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• I was always an actor, starting in middle school. I was in all the plays and all that. But dancing didn't come into my life until late into high school.

  Harry Shum, Jr.

  School, Play, Dancing

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• I started at GM knowing very little about that particular business. Not being an expert means you have to learn everything, starting from the basics.

  Edward Whitacre, Jr.

  Mean, Knowing, Experts

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• God is not just the starting point of your life; he is the source of it.

  Rick Warren

  Source, Starting Point

  Rick Warren (2011). “What on Earth Am I Here For? Purpose Driven Life”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• For those working menial jobs or putting in 100-hour weeks for corporations, the lure of starting your own business can seem like a great way to get more flexibility, upside, and ownership.

  Kathryn Minshew

  Jobs, Corporations, Way

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• The American economy has always been the innovator in the world, and we're starting to see some tremendous increases in innovation, especially in the clean energy sector.

  Tim Kaine

  Innovation, Energy, World

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• When I was just starting out, I met Cartier-Bresson. He wasn't young in age but, in his mind, he was the youngest person I'd ever met. He told me it was necessary to trust my instincts, be inside my work, and set aside my ego. In the end, my photography turned out very different to his, but I believe we were coming from the same place.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Believe, Ego

  "Portrait of the artist: Sebastião Salgado, photographer". Interview With Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2012.

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• I like starting. It's pretty cool.

  Al Leiter

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• You need help when you're starting out. On the other hand, some people are very naturalistic to begin with.

  David Naughton

  Hands, People, Needs

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• David Agus is one of America's great doctors and medical researchers, a man dedicated to improving the health of as many people as he can. Written in a style and format that will truly engage readers, The End of Illness presents a dramatic, new way of thinking about our own health-a way that could lead to greatly improving the quality of life for millions, starting right now.

  Al Gore

  Men, Thinking, America

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