A Quote by Peter Munk
But you don't get into a business because of personal tastes.
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Even personal tastes are learned, in the matrix of a culture or a subculture in which we grow up, by very much the same kind of process by which we learn our common values. Purely personal tastes, indeed, can only survive in a culture which tolerates them, that is, which has a common value that private tastes of certain kinds should be allowed.
Those who say "it's not personal, it's just business" are lying. All business is personal, and the best business is very personal.
Once you figure out what respect tastes like, it tastes better than attention. But you have to get there.
The NBA (National Basketball Association) is never just a business. It's always business. It's always personal. All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal.
It [moviemaking] is all a relationship business. It's a personal business. It's all personal relationships, if you're lucky enough to build on one to the other.
All my work is not personal - I've been trying to get away from that into the true self underneath all the tastes and things we think make up a self.
You know the expression, "It's not personal; it's business." We sneer at such rot. All business is personal, all the time.
The real test of business greatness is in giving opportunity to others. Many business men fail in this because they are thinking only of personal glory.
No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do business well, who do nothing else.
The NBA is never just a business. It's always business. It's always personal. All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal.
When you're writing something, and you're putting yourself out there, or you're performing and someone comes in and savages that, then of course it feels personal. It doesn't feel like it's just business, because there's no business - it's not like we're conducting business, this anonymous critic and I. It's just that this person is tearing me a new asshole.
If your taste goes wrong or you listen to other people's tastes too much, even though they could make a fantastic movie out of it with their own tastes, if they blend their tastes with mine, it's probably going to be a mess.
I used to eat because food tastes so good. I love food, it's one of the best things on this planet. But I changed the way I was thinking. I started asking myself, 'Hey, am I eating because it tastes good? Or because I really need some more? Am I really still hungry?'
People are doing too much e-mail. The basic thing is eyeball-to-eyeball. Business relationships are made to be personal. The more people get away from it, the more they are going to lose that personal relationship. That's what I learned - to develop personal relationships with people.
The failure rate for gym owners and personal trainers is very high because it is very difficult for them to work on their business when they are busy working in their business.
I think it would be bad to a truly successful celebrity person, because I know these novelists where people get a cult following, and they have some strange personal attachment to them because it's so personal to read a book.
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