"Auctomatic was a compressed start-up experience, going from start to launch to acquisition in under a year. We spent a long time building the product before getting our first customer, whereas with Stripe we made sure we had paying customers from the very start."

-- John Collison

#Years Quotes #Long Quotes #Stripes Quotes

“You handle animals. You deal with people.”
“I'm a fan of balance and order, but I like to put that extra layer on top. It makes it more dynamic.”
“I can't say that I have ever been fanatical about a show. To be honest, I'm not a big TV watcher.”
“Not even piety will stay wrinkles, nor the encroachments of age, nor the advance of death, which cannot be resisted.”
“L.A. just doesn't seem real to me. Chicago does. My real friends are there. It's home.”

Source : "Chris O'Donnell: Whatever Blows Your Hair Back". Interview with Lawrence Grobel, movieline.com. March 1, 1996.
“Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?”
“Don't forget to bring that little blonde haired girl along. You know the one, love to watch her jump up and down.”
“According to the management expert Peter F. Drucker, the term "entrepreneur" (from the French, meaning "one who takes into hand") was introduced two centuries ago by the French economist Jean-Baptiste Say to characterize a special economic actor-not someone who simply opens a business, but someone who "shifts economic resources out of an area of lower and into an area of higher productivity and greater yield." The twentieth-century growth economist Joseph A. Schumpeter characterized the entrepreneur as the source of the "creative destruction" necessary for major economic advances.”

Source : David Bornstein (2004). “How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas”, p.2, Oxford University Press, USA

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