Everything I do and everything Pixar does is based on a simple rule: Quality is the best business plan, period.


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Quality is the best business plan.
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Our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.
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They do not desire anything more than everything they have known.
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Timing is everything.
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Timing is everything.
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The first rule on breaking a rule is to know everything about the rule.
NUNO ROQUE
Timing is everything with relationships.
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Quality is a great business plan.
JOHN LASSETER
Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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Money is not everything.
BEN OAK
I will describe my eyes and then begin the story. My eyes are blue and resplendent. Now I will begin...
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Life is a racket. Writing is a racket. Sincerity is a racket. Everything's a racket.
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Everything is based on gymnastics.
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I'm looking for all the things that are beneficial in the human genome. Everything that I do is ...
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The taste of any simple tomato-based salad is dependent on the quality of the tomatoes.
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Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
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Our whole game is based on defense. Everything we do on defense usually translates to offense.
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Ultimately love is everything.
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It's based on the actual goals of the business plan.
SUZANNE PRIEUR
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Everything someone does on a daily basis should be traceable back to an annual or quarterly plan.
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Genius is the ability to rule at everything you put your hands on.
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Everything does not happen according to a plan, and you learn your lessons the hard way.
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Everything that is simple is theoratically false, everything that is complicated is pragmatically us...
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Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time. Timing is everything
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All you need remember is one simple rule. Never mix business...with pleasure.
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A dead Christ I must do everything for; a living Christ does everything for me.
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The whole universe is based on rhythms. Everything happens in circles, in spirals.
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We live in an age where everything is based on the short term.
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I think everything you do in life is a learning experience.
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How we perceive everything is a simple perception on who we are sub-consciously.
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The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself.
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I love Jill Scott! I love everything she puts on, how she does her hair; everything about Jill Scott...
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White is pure and simple and matches with everything.
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It's healing, everything is on track. Our plan is just to leave it alone.
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I'm such a profound believer that timing is everything; I would tattoo that on my arm.
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The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis.
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The bottom line is that any business should be a meritocracy. The best and brightest. Period.
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I do everything that everybody else does.
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I can write tickets and do basically everything a regular officer does.
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Everything Michael Jackson does on stage is exactly right.
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Ah, the magic of music, with it, all things are possible.
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The best way to move on and move forward is to let go of the past. By past I mean everything hurtful...
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We don't plan on going anywhere -- but everything is for sale for the right price.
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Put a higher value on yourself. Being hyper-realistic about everything is too simple a get-out.
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I have been working since I was 11 on everything including period dramas.
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Everything Michael does is geared toward [the first pitch of the game]. The way he prepares and goes...
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There is nobody in this world who knows everything about anything! Be a student for Life.
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I will walk without noise and I will open the door in darkness and I will
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To feel alone is to be alone.
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Their school is one of the best business schools there is. And that's what I plan to major in.
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Based on what I've heard, it's a dead-end street. Everything we did is totally above table.
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Everything you do or don't do affects the rest of your life.
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If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best.
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we were not born the same and we are all not born with the same abilities and capabilities, but no m...
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I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
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JOHN HEYWOOD
You win by working hard, making tough decisions and building coalitions.
JOHN ENGLER
I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the ...
JOHN MCGAHERN
The last thing on my mind was to be an actor, but I had a crush on a cute girl in the drama departme...
JOHN RATZENBERGER
He who laughs most, learns best.
JOHN CLEESE
Some people feel fulfillment from a bitter end - it gives them some sort of sense of reality. But, w...
JOHN BOYEGA
I've never eaten just a few bites of things I liked in my life.
JOHN MADDEN
The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.
JOHN WOODEN
A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.
JOHN WOODEN
Just try to be the best you can be; never cease trying to be the best you can be. That's in your...
JOHN WOODEN
If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
JOHN WOODEN
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
JOHN WOODEN
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
JOHN LOCKE
It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all...
JOHN LOCKE
It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the tr...
JOHN LOCKE
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
JOHN LOCKE
It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a ...
JOHN LENNON
I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people cal...
JOHN LENNON
I believe time wounds all heels.
JOHN LENNON
The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. I...
JOHN LENNON
When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have...
JOHN LENNON
If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, th...
JOHN LENNON
I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always...
JOHN LENNON
You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!
JOHN LENNON
Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
JOHN LENNON
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptat...
JOHN LOCKE