"Listen first and never stop listening."

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Source : FaceBook post by Dave Kerpen from Sep 26, 2013

Dave Kerpen

#Listening Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.”
“I've built companies, I've created jobs, I know the frustration of small businesses with higher taxes.”
“People I meet today, especially journalists who interview me, are astonished to hear that Lenin told me, in effect, that Communism was not working and that the Revolution needed American capital and technical aid.”

Source : Armand Hammer, Neil Lyndon (1988). “Hammer”, Perigee
“People listen to the music and sense what it is about. Sometimes they know exactly what the songs are about, sometimes they interpret their own meaning to the music, and thats great when this happens because it shows its striking a chord.”
“Artists are often poignantly careless about making and keeping friends.”
“In both rich and poor nations consumption is polarized while expectation is equalized.”
“There was a study done in the early 20th century of all the entrepreneurs who entered the automobile industry around the same time as Henry Ford; there were something like 500 automotive companies that got funded, had the internal combustion engine, had the technology, and had the vision. Sixty percent of them folded within a couple of years.”
“I would encourage people to realize that you don't have to panic if you're not part of a mainstream, or if you find yourself outside the flow. If it doesn't suit you, don't go along with it. Just sit it out and get your stuff done. Don't just sit moaning or getting drunkâ€”I spent some years doing that. But if you can just come up with something of your own, however minor it is, that's going to be easier to live with when you're at the end of your life.”

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