Ivor Tiefenbrun - People Quotes

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They are rebuilding the Soviet Union. Even though we in the UK are now developing the bureaucracy, the black economy and the corruption essential for participation in the new European superstate, I don't think it is something the British people will want or welcome.

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I set out by challenging conventional wisdom. They said the turntable didn't matter; I said it was critical. They said the speaker was the most important thing; I said it was the last thing to worry about. So I started off in conflict in an industry where few people understood the mechanical things and the recording aspects of the business.

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Not every young man was designed by Mother Nature to sit behind a desk working for the tax people or one of these other bullshit organisations... Some of us were designed to go out and fight people, capture animals, to have an outlet for these energies.

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People don't automatically appreciate the difference between listening and hearing any more than they do the difference between looking and seeing.

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No, we are Scots people up here. We are not going to be driven out of our own country. The notion that if you become more prosperous and your people command a higher salary it makes you less competitive is one I find deeply offensive,'.

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Business 101: Other people heard it and said if you make them, we'll sell them... I made them, they sold them, but they never paid me - which was my first lesson in business.

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We are now suffering from four simultaneous investigations by separate tax and regulation authorities. We are constantly harassed and abused by these people. Usually they end up owing us money. I can't find anybody who runs a foreign-owned subsidiary who has anything like the aggro we have.

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Because I was involved in controversy, people saw me as controversial. Because the industry is about personalities, people thought Linn was about personalities.

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People equate survival in Britain with success. If you are still around you must be doing OK. Nobody sees the lost opportunities. We are the world leaders in creating lost opportunities.

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