John Paulson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • …words have been all my life, all my life--this need is like the Spider's need who carries before her a huge Burden of Silk which she must spin out--the silk is her life, her home, her safety--her food and drink too--and if it is attacked or pulled down, why, what can she do but make more, spin afresh, design anew….

  • Come, come, come. Without a monster or two it's not a quest, merely a gaggle of friends wandering about.

  • Plant trees. They give us two of the most crucial elements for our survival: oxygen and books.

  • There are two types of people in the world, and I'm one of them.

  • My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.

  • Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.

  • First is first. That's the way I was brought up. Second or third are nowhere.

  • I am not designed to come second or third. I am designed to win.

  • I knew that even if I were second or third rate, it was astronomy that mattered.

  • A Platonic friendship is perhaps only possible when one or other of the Platonists is in love with a third person.