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“Information is currency. ... Power is a place as well as a verb; it is inside the information tent.” quote by Lynda Obst — Download Open image

“Information is currency. ... Power is a place as well as a verb; it is inside the information tent.”

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with all these tentpoles, franchises, reboots and sequels, is there still room for movies in the movie business?

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Like the color black, business mixed with anything turns to business.

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To whom one reports is a unit of measure. It measures the exact distance between the player and the center of power. It is the closest we can get to a calibrated answer to the question 'How big am I?' More than the size of an executive's office or even his title, which no one remembers anyway, the fewer people…

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Always remember the famous adage about the movie business: You can't make a living, you can only get rich.

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A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around. He doesn't speak the language. He holds no currency. He is a foreign man. He is surrounded by the sound, sound of cattle in the marketplace, scatterlings and orphanages. He looks around, around he sees angels…

Most paper money initially existed as a substitute for gold. That's what gave it value. But right now what gives a currency value is other currency. Most countries hold reserves and the reserves are other currencies. If you are a backing up the euro with the dollar, what's backing up the dollar? I don't think it is going to go…

When the dollar collapses, it's not doing it in a vacuum. If the dollar loses value, it's doing so relative to some other currency.…

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If you do more than your share you'd better want to: otherwise, you're paying yourself in a currency recognized nowhere else.

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The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it…

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This is not really currency that circulates. It's like the old joke about expensive vintage wine. Wine prices will go up and once in a while somebody will buy a 50-year-old bottle of wine and say, "Wait a minute. This has gone bad." The answer is, "Well, that wine isn't for drinking; that's for trading." These $100 bills aren't meant…

This separation was absolute in our original Republic. But the sky-godders do not give up easily. In the 1950s they actually got the phrase…

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As far as income goes, there are three currencies in the world; most people ignore two. The three currencies are time, income and mobility,…

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The euro is not a currency. It is a political weapon to force countries to implement the policies decided by the E.U. and keep…

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It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or…

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My single biggest financial concern is the loss of the dollar as the reserve currency. I can't imagine anything more disastrous to our country. . .you're already seeing things in the markets that are suggesting that confidence in the dollar is waning. . .I think you could see a 25% reduction in the standard of living in this country if…

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