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In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#business #create #creative #modern #modern world

One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man. ↗

— Ben Okri

#always #bit #bore #challenging #completely

At Current, television is all we do - that's our business. We don't have amusement parks I have to worry about, we don't have environmental cases against us, we don't have a series of outdoor-advertising companies. ↗

— Keith Olbermann

#against #amusement #business #cases #companies

Once the Republicans get rolling, they assume they're going to win everything. They are zealots, and zealots assume the last five percent of whatever their plan is will be taken care of by their own greatness or momentum or divinity. ↗

— Keith Olbermann

#care #divinity #everything #five #get

Political correctness has become a straightjacket. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#correctness #political #political correctness

Everyone tries to talk you out of going to college. The consensus being that people are just gonna forget about you, you know, and that's the way the business works. ↗

— Larisa Oleynik

#being #business #college #consensus #everyone

Initially we both did a bit of everything towards making each game but as we began to hire people and the business grew we naturally went in different directions, and away from the coalface of development. ↗

— Andrew Oliver

#began #bit #both #business #development

We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy. I spent a great deal of time in my younger years just writing and reading, walking around the woods in Ohio, where I grew up. ↗

— Mary Oliver

#could #deal #great #great deal #grew

We kinda look at this as the second or third chapter of our lives. After college, most people figure out what they want to do with their lives. But we already know what we want to do in the future and that is to continue to further our business goals. ↗

— Mary-Kate Olsen

#already #business #chapter #college #continue

"It worked." (said after witnessing the first atomic detonation). ↗

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

#atomic #first #said #witnessing #worked