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“But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy.”

Reason Wanted Business Cowboy Midnight

Author:Jodie Foster

“But we can't alibi all our ills by just knocking the old banker. First he loaned the money, then the people all at once wanted it back, and he didn't have it. Now he's got it again, and is afraid to loan it, so the poor devil don't know what to do.”

People Knows Firsts Wanted Poor Business Devil Loan Bankers Knocking

Book:Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933

Source: Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933

“We have been just going like a house afire, and we couldent see any reason why we shouldent keep right on burning. Our tastes were acquired on credit, and we wanted to keep on enjoying 'em on credit.”

Has Beens Reason Wanted House Enjoy Business Taste Credit Burning Reason Why Ems

Book:Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Hoover Years, 1929-1931

Source: Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Hoover Years, 1929-1931

“We grow by letting the customer tell us. So when the customer tells us that they're frustrated, that they just got their catalogue and we're already out of a product they wanted, then it tells me that we're not making enough. We let the customer tell us instead of creating an artificial demand for our products. Any time you're making products that people don't need, you're at the mercy of the economy, you're at the mercy of whatever is going on. So we tried to avoid that situation.”

People Needs Enough Wanted Grows Business Situation Economy Products Demand Creating Mercy Customers Artificial Frustrated Need You Catalogues Don't Need You

Author:Yvon Chouinard

“I think early on I knew what I was going to do and it was based a lot on familiarity but it was also because I didn't have a lot of skills. There was nothing I wanted t be. I didn't want to be a doctor. I wanted to be in show business.”

Thinking Want Shows Wanted Business Skills Doctors Show Business Familiarity

Author:Christopher Walken

“I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn't really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going.”

Writing Wanted Success Order Found Business Entrepreneur Magazines Entrepreneurship Journalist Editors Entrepreneurial

Author:Richard Branson

“My take on the whole dot-com bubble was that a lot of people who wanted to make a lot of money got too excited and hyped up the commercial aspects of the Internet prematurely. I think the vision of the Internet as a democratizing medium - as everyone's printing press - is real. We got distracted from that by the mass hallucinations of the bubble.”

People Thinking Real Whole Wanted Money Business Vision Media Internet Mass Aspect Presses Greed Excited Mediums Bubbles Lots Of Money Distracted Printing Dots Hallucinations Printing Press

Author:Craig Newmark