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FAST COMPANY: What's more important, quality or quantity?

CONAN O'Brien: I've always thought it's important to have a quality of quantity. OK, that made no sense. I guess what I'm trying to say is that it's good to have quantity of quality, there. I think that's better. Yes. I'm going to go with a quantity of quality. People act like it's an either/or, I say have both. Have lots of stuff that's the very best. Quantity of quality. And really make sure that there's a quality to your quantity. Either way, get the two Qs, that's what I always say.

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What's more important, quality or quantity?

Conan Christopher O'Brien (born April 18, 1963) is an American television host, comedian, writer, producer and performer. He is currently the host of Conan, a late-night talk show that airs on the American cable television station TBS.

O'Brien was born in Brookline, Massachusetts and raised in an Irish Catholic family. He landed his first comedy job as a writer for the sketch comedy series Not Necessarily the News, after first serving as president of the Harvard Lampoon while attending Harvard University. After graduating, he moved to Los Angeles, where he wrote for several comedy shows, and later moved to New York City to work on the writing staff of Saturday Night Live, and later for The Simpsons. O'Brien went on to serve as host of Late Night with Conan O'Brien from 1993 to 2009, before going on to host the short-lived The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien for seven months. He is the only personality to ever serve as host for both the NBC Late Night and Tonight Show franchises.

On April 12, 2010, it was announced that O'Brien would begin hosting a new late-night talk show on cable TV network TBS. Conan premiered on November 8, 2010.

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