Michael Birch famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I don't have any great ambition to go out and make money. But I am still fascinated in starting up businesses and starting it in a way and running in a way that I want to do it.
-- Michael Birch

#Running #Ambition #Starting Up
People can live without a Facebook account: my 13-year-old daughter has cancelled her account because it's not cool anymore.
-- Michael Birch

#Daughter #Years #People
If you are going truly viral, you don't need press. I mean, MySpace grew for a very long time without any press.
-- Michael Birch

#Mean #Long #Needs
Birthday Alarm was a very simple site based on being reminded of your friends' birthdays.
-- Michael Birch

#Simple #Alarms #Site
When I was a kid, I really liked playing chess, which is pretty geeky; I just enjoyed it - thinking, exercising my mind. And I found computers to be like an eight-hour day chess game.
-- Michael Birch

#Kids #Exercise #Thinking
Myspace was always a bit edgy. People identified it with edginess and music.
-- Michael Birch

#People #Edginess #Edgy
I wanted to build something that was a system - that was mechanical and would propagate itself like a virus. I needed a way for it spread from person to person, and the best way to do that was trying to get someone to get their friends to sign up.
-- Michael Birch

#Trying #Viruses #Way
I built websites for myself. I didn't want to work for anyone else. I came from a science background, so I approached things fairly analytically.
-- Michael Birch

#Want #Website #Backgrounds

I think it's important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don't want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin.
Rogue Squadron doesn't run. Unless we really, really have to.
Rogue Squadron doesnâ€™t run. Unless we really, really have to." "No, this will be Wraith Squadronâ€™s mission." "We donâ€™t mind running. Even when we donâ€™t have to.
Now I've even gotten to running out to the fan buses that pass by our house, so I can talk to the people. I think I'm trying to gather fans, frankly. They're very, very nice people - they really understand. It's fun talking to them.
I really hate it when I canâ€™t score runs from a ball.
Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.
My only ambition when I came to Hollywood was to pay my rent.
Let the average man be put to the proof on the question of who is above, and his true position will be exposed. Let him be forced into making a choice between God and money, between God and men, between God and personal ambition, God and self, God and human love, and God will take second place every time.
If it is true that love is the pursuit in another of qualities we lack in ourselves, then in our love of someone from another culture, one ambition may be to weld ourselves more closely to values missing from our own culture.
Life is too brief and too rich to tiptoe through half-heartedly, rather than galloping at it with whooping excitement and ambition.

Michael Birch famous quotes

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