Georges Doriot famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Without action, the world would still be an idea.
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Always consider investing in a grade-A man with a grade-B idea. Never invest in a grade-B man with a grade-A idea.
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Someone, somewhere, is making a product that will make your product obsolete.
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There is always a critical job to be done. There is a sales door to be opened, a credit line to be established, a new important employee to be found, or a business technique to be learned. The venture investor must always be on call to advise, to persuade, to dissuade, to encourage, but always to help build. Then venture capital becomes true creative capital - creating growth for the company and financial success for the investing organization
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People who do well in life understand things that other people don't understand.
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You will get no where if you do not inspire people.
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Be friendly but not chummy with your lawyers.
-- Georges Doriot
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To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.
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You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.
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A divided heart loses both worlds.
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Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.
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Perils as well as privileges attend the higher Christian life. The nearer we come to God, the thicker the hosts of darkness in heavenly places. Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.
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Photographs are of course about their makers, and are to be read for what they disclose in that regard no less than for what they reveal of the world as their makers comprehend, invent, and describe it.
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And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.
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Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.
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Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.
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How often it is that a small action becomes great by its intention. And how often it is that a great action becomes small by its intention.
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