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Charlie Ergen Quotes

There are only two kinds of employees that I've run across in 30 years. There are ones that get results, and ones that make excuses. If you're in that second camp, you're not going to like Dish.

Charlie Ergen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: 1953

Topics

Excuses Employees You Results Run

We'll probably be working on another album in the next few months here.

Meg White

Next Here Working Album Few Months

I always work in a room where there's no Internet to keep from being distracted so easily.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Work Internet Always Room Where

I want to be the greatest investigative reporter of my generation.

Michael Hastings

Generation Want Greatest Reporter

I want to be careful when I'm breaking down matches because I don't want to offend anybody or knock anybody's work. It took me a long time to get where I was at, so I know how it feels when someone knocks on you.

Stone Cold Steve Austin

Work Time Me Someone Long You

I think only a woman understands another woman's body.

Trinny Woodall

Woman Think Body Only I Think

I love being in a band. I love that collaborative spirit, although some would suggest that I don't get involved in the collaborative spirit, but it's not true.

Trevor Rabin

Love True Spirit Band Involved Get

I would say, A, you can't really teach anyone how to write good characters, because it's something you have to teach yourself or already have innately in you as a storyteller, and, B, coming up with a good screenplay is a very, very small fraction of what it takes to be a good screenwriter.

Robert Ben Garant

Good Yourself Small You Say Teach

When inspiration does not come, I go for a walk, go to the movie, talk to a friend, let go... The muse is bound to return again, especially if I turn my back!

Judy Collins

Friend Walk Back Go Talk Let Go

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.

Jean de la Bruyere

Future Children Past Present Enjoy

The poorest people are the sweetest people.

Denzel Washington

People Sweetest Poorest

Who made me laugh when I was growing was Chaplin and the Marx Brothers, and then moving on, there were so many that I was a writer for for many years: I was a writer for the Smothers Brothers, Lily Tomlin, then I started on 'Saturday Night Live' as the head writer the first year we started it.

Chevy Chase

Live Moving On Me Moving Night Year

In my early 20s, a friend and I worked for a few months on a sheep farm in New Zealand. Working with ewes, I learned a lot about the power of wool - how it keeps you cool when you're hot, warm when you're cold, dry when you're wet.

Anthony Doerr

Friend Power Cool Cold Warm Sheep