Jim Breyer famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Startup success is driven most by the product passion, quality, vision, team-work and persistence of the founding team and the talent that the team attracts.
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I fundamentally believe in term limits, for Congress, presidents, and board members.
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The innovation industries are rapidly going global. In five years, more than 50% of venture capital returns will come from markets outside the United States, including China, India, Brazil, and Australia, and AlwaysOn events are on top of these trends.
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I think that we should all be defined by our work and our results.
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I want to make as much of a contribution as I can, to Harvard, to higher education and hopefully, to education around the world.
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The collision of mobile and social platforms and the need to build these companies from the ground up - whether it's a game, a healthcare application, an education application - building these from the ground up is what allows entrepreneurial activity to be unleashed.
-- Jim Breyer
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But it became clear as time went on that in Mr. Bush's mind the New World Order was founded on a convergence of goals and interests between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, so strong and permanent that they would work as a team through the U.N. Security Council.
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The reality is we are 0-3. The reality is that we can still be a very good football team. We need to show that on Monday night.
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I want us to be a connected team-on and off the field.
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I grew up trying to play for the Toronto Maple Leafs, not Team Canada. Didn't even know it existed.
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I want to help my team get to the playoffs, win, and run wild.
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I'm pretty sure I could outrun the whole Dallas Cowboys team.
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The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion–– cools your fears with peace.
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Some men are born husbands; they have a passion for domesticity, for a fireside, for a home. Yet, curiously, these men very rarely stay at home. Apparently what they want is to have a place to get away from.
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When it comes to fundraising for a social enterprise, if you are pursuing your true passion, you'll learn to become great at your craft because you'll care so much about perfecting the skills necessary to make that dream a reality.
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You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to preserve moments of grace or joy or transcendence, to make real or imagined events come alive. But you cannot will this to happen. It is a matter of persistence and faith and hard work. So you might as well just go ahead and get started.
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