"It's important to choose initial investors who are not twitchy and rushing for an exit. Wall Street's quarter-by-quarter lens may make the CEO make sub-optimal long-term decisions."

-- Roelof Botha

#Wall Quotes #Rushing Quotes #Long Quotes

“The most colorful section of a bookstore is the display of SF books, with art by people like Wayne Barlow, who is a terrific artist.”
“A well governed people are generally a people who do not think much.”
“The mistake you make, don't you see,is in thinking one can live in a corrupt society without being corrupt oneself. After all, what do you achieve by refusing to make money? You're trying to behave as though one could stand right outside our economic system. But one can't. One's got to change the system, or one changes nothing. One can't put things right in a hole-and-corner way, if you take my meaning.”
“Indiana gets credit for having the most rabid basketball fans in the union, but Maine is a very, very active basketball state.”
“You have to accustom yourself to practical study at home, you have to devote time to studies, to the history of chess, the development of chess, of chess culture.”

Source : "Botvinnik: 100 Selected Games".
“Fishing is one of the greatest things that you can do, it has the power to relax you like nothing else and there's nothing quite like the thrill of the catch.”
“All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats.”
“It doesn't matter whether the Dow is 5000 or 50,000. If you're an entrepreneur, there is no bad time to start a company.”

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