"When I'm hiring someone I look for magic and a spark. Little things that intuitively give me a gut feeling that this person will go to the ends of the earth to accomplish the task at hand"

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Source : "Tommy Mottola: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 29, 3013.

Tommy Mottola

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“Why don’t we have libertarian anarchy? Why does government exist? The answer implicit in previous chapters is that government as a whole exists because most people believe it is necessary.”

Source : David D. Friedman (1989). “The machinery of freedom: guide to a radical capitalism”, Open Court Publishing Company
“Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can”
“David Blunkett and I both take the same view that it is scandalous that someone from North Tyneside, Laura Spence, with the best qualifications and who wants to be a doctor, should be turned down by Oxford University using an interview system more reminiscent of the old school network and the old school tie than justice. It is about time for an end to that old Britain where what matters more are the privileges you are born with, rather than the potential you actually have.”

Source : "Brown goes to war over Oxford elite" by Alexandra Frean, John O'Leary and Philip Webster, The Times, May 26, 2000.
“I don't have a problem with 'Idol' or 'X Factor,' I have a problem with when those things are not given the proper contextual hue.”
“Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.”
“This year marks 20 years since the Rwandan genocide -- the world's greatest humanitarian tragedy of the late 20th century. The international community had pledged 'never again' in the aftermath of the genocide in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda in the 1990s. Yet, we are witnessing today a different type of humanitarian disaster unfolding in Syria and Iraq.”
“You might measure your approach to a horse the same way as your approach to people because there are going to be some horses, like some people, who might be inclined to tune you out.”
“People go to the movies to see things they havenâ€™t seen before. Call me a radical.”

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