Douglas Leone famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

In a downturn, aggressive PR and communications strategy is key.
-- Douglas Leone

#Communication #Keys #Strategy
Be incredibly, ruthlessly selfish with your equity.
-- Douglas Leone

#Selfish #Equity
Crystal-clear thinking is one of the things we look for - not a fancy slide pitch, but crystal-clear thinking.
-- Douglas Leone

#Thinking #Looks #Fancy
Give me an entrepreneur with a lot of courage, gusto and who iterates rapidly, and I will back that person day in and day out.
-- Douglas Leone

#Giving #Entrepreneur #Gusto
I was working on boats as a teenager, sweating like a pig during a summer job.
-- Douglas Leone

#Summer #Jobs #Teenager
A tremendous chief executive in a small market will never be great. All great companies start with great markets.
-- Douglas Leone

#Chief Executives #Chiefs #Great Company
The venture industry is both quite vibrant and quite competitive.
-- Douglas Leone

#Venture #Industry
Guys like me on the investor side are a dime a dozen.
-- Douglas Leone

#Guy #Dimes #Dozen

Humor and absurdism are inevitable. If you look at our current massive flow of consumer products and digital communication and related media from a sort of astute perspective and carefully state what you see you can't help but sounding like you're joking.
It's populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling.
When I was young I thought of friendship as a matter of total loyalty and unchanging preference and I was often disappointed. But as an adult I had come to see that it was more the refraction of some total faithfulness and joy of which we all had some primordial notion. The exchange of trust and the experience of understanding between two people was like a sign or witness to the possibilitity of eternal caring and understanding and communication.
But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.
There cannot be any communication except through form. If there is no form, you cannot create emotion in the spectator.
A recent report by UNEP and Interpol estimated that between 50 to 90 per cent of logging in key tropical countries of the Amazon basin, Central Africa and South East Asia is being carried out by organized crime. This threatens not only attempts to eradicate poverty and deforestation but also efforts to combat climate change.
I think no matter what you look like, the key is to first of all be happy with yourself. And then you know if you want to try to improve things that you don't like about yourself, then do it after your appreciate yourself.
I've always believed it's important to make the invisible visible. And valuing that which has been taken for granted is something that I've always instinctually known is the key to the kind of society I want to live in and raise my children in.
What is the key to life on Earth?
Attack! Always Attack!

Douglas Leone famous quotes

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