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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.

— Ivor Tiefenbrun

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I foolishly assumed that if the thing measured better, it should sound better. I also assumed that if it didn't sound any better, there was no point in buying it.

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

The way Labour work is that they have demonised Thatcher as if she was an evil force... It's only because Scots are so thick that this was swallowed.

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.

On opportunities: 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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