Tim Waterstone quotes
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“I believe that the mindset that allows you to spend your working life thanking and congratulating people rather than being unpleasant to them is the mainstay of good leadership.”
-- Tim WaterstoneSource : Tim Waterstone (2013). “Swimming Against the Stream: Creating Your Business and Making Your Life”, p.114, Pan Macmillan
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“It's actually as simple as this. New authors, building their customer base, need physical bookshops. Physical bookshops are lovely tactile, friendly, expert, welcoming places. Physical books, which can only be seen and handled in physical bookshops, are lovely, tactile things. Destroy those bookshops, and the very commercial and cultural base to the book industry is destroyed. Once and for all. Like Humpty Dumpty, it can never be put together again.”
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“Its intuition that works. Just intuition.""Waterstones was aimed at me. I knew that I wanted, and badly needed in my life, bookshops just like the ones I was creating. I simply assumed that plenty of other people, no doubt of wildly differing demographics, would find once they saw them that they wanted them too. Well - they did.”
-- Tim WaterstoneSource : Tim Waterstone (2013). “Swimming Against the Stream: Creating Your Business and Making Your Life”, p.130, Pan Macmillan
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“Anyone who tells you they know the future is telling you the most grotesque lie, because none of us do,”
-- Tim WaterstoneSource : "Tim Waterstone: 'If reading is going be all digital in 50 years, so be it'" by John Harris, www.theguardian.com. April 9, 2013.
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“Ignore the received wisdom of any industry you’re entering. Never be trapped by dogma. Never let other people’s opinions drown out your own inner voice.”
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“Its intuition that works. Just intuition.”
-- Tim Waterstone
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“What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.”
Source : Martin D. Tullai, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “Speaking of Abraham Lincoln”
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“Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man's deceiver Was never mine.”
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Source : A. Lee Martinez (2007). “In the Company of Ogres”, p.133, Macmillan
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“I believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God.”
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“People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.”
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