Rives famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.

  • If someone is interested in working with me, I would much rather them email me and we sit down or get on the phone, than them look at a client list and decide if I'm worth it or not. It should be based on work, and based on how we get along. As opposed to like, "Oh, he's worked with this, this, and this. Let's go. That's fine."

  • Develop a mailing list... anyone who comes through your studio or meets you at art shows or anywhere. It's the power of permission-based marketing. Email your latest work to the list, every month.

  • Firing is always difficult. The right way: one-on-one. The wrong way: snickering in front of other people, or via email.

  • Garrison Keillor read several of my poems on 'The Writer's Almanac' and I've heard from listeners nationally and internationally. That's one of the great gifts of email.

  • I can't just react on the strength of an email and three pages of synopsis, and say I'm going to take off for three months of my life.

  • Jeff Bezos is opening a retail store and owns a newspaper. Turns out everything we thought about the Internet is wrong.

  • The problem with the internet is that anyone can just make stuff up

  • We have the Internet of Everything but not the inclusion of everyone.

  • I invented the internet