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John Wanamaker Quotes

I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, but I can never find out which half.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: July 11, 1838 - December 12, 1922

Topics

Money Advertising Find I Can Know

Being a great founder or early team member is a difficult dialectic - you have to be a bit overconfident, and a big ego isn't always a bad thing. To change the world requires pushing really, really hard and believing you and your team know something others don't.

Change Great Change The World Team

If you write chick lit, and if you're a New Yorker, and if your book becomes the topic of pop-culture fascination, the paper might make dismissive and ignorant mention of your book. If you write romance, forget about it. You'll be lucky if they spell your name right on the bestseller list.

Jennifer Weiner

Book Name You New Forget Lucky

People talk very much about, 'What can we do with the orchestra in the 21st century?' We should think about the 21st century, of course.

People Think Talk Orchestra Century

It took me a year just to edit 'Shotgun Stories.' Actually, it took me two years to edit 'Shotgun Stories.'

Me Year Two Years Just Stories

The Architect is just one of a series of works which examine the confrontation of innocence and experience, illustrating the complex ethics of power that exist between reader and writer, critic and artist, the human and the divine.

Power Experience Ethics Innocence

I self-deprecate. When I first got here two years ago, I didn't realise that in America you can't go into the room and put yourself down.

Sophie Winkleman

Yourself America You Down Go First

My one wish for humanity is that everyone can become the person they were meant to be - what are the barriers to that? Often it's crushing poverty or certain circumstances.

Wish Poverty Humanity Person Become

I would do a documentary about Jay-Z. Yes, I would.

Yes Would Documentary About Jay-Z

At Christmas time, I spent an extortionate amount of money on Buzz Lightyear toys, baby clothes, Disney cars and the like.

Time Money Baby Clothes Christmas

Tis a dainty thing to command, though twere but a flock of sheep.

Miguel de Cervantes

Sheep Command Flock Though Thing

My career in the movie business began in Hong Kong, my heart has always been tied to Asia, and it is immensely gratifying to see international recognition for Asian cinema as a whole.

Business Heart Recognition Career

We have to realize that science is a double-edged sword. One edge of the sword can cut against poverty, illness, disease and give us more democracies, and democracies never war with other democracies, but the other side of the sword could give us nuclear proliferation, biogerms and even forces of darkness.

Science Darkness War Poverty Edge

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