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John Katzman
"The thing about startups is you can make it, and if it's wrong you can remake it, and you can build a team that you want to have, a product that you want to have. You're utterly focused on your users or your customers and their needs, and trying to figure out how to meet those needs." --
Source : "Founder Of The Princeton Review: 'I Hated Being A Public Company CEO'". Interview with Alexandra Mondalek, www.businessinsider.com. July 17, 2013.
John Katzman
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“Nobody wanted me. Scouts told me to go to school, to forget baseball. Coaches said, 'You're never going to make it.' I appreciated their honesty, because I think when someone tells you something you may not like, you have to use that as fuel for motivation.”
“Engraving then, is, in brief terms, the Art of Scratch.”
“In horror stories or in fairy tales, the fascination with the morbid is also, at least for me, a way to prepare for the unthinkable… That’s why it’s very important for me to show the artificiality of it all, because the real horrors of the world are unmatchable, and they’re too profound. It’s much easier to absorb – to be entertained by it, but also to let it affect you psychologically – if it’s done in a fake, humorous, artificial way.”
“To be the best of all time, you have to do it over and over. I want to keep it up, and then the numbers will speak for themselves.”
“Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.”
“What, sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty ... Whenever governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins.”
Source : House of Representatives, Amendments to the Constitution, August 17, 1789.
“If your writing doesn`t keep you up at night, it won`t keep anyone else up either".”
“Twas a jolly old pedagogue, long ago, Tall and slender, and sallow and dry; His form was bent, and his gait was slow, His long thin hair was white as snow, But a wonderful twinkle shone in his eye. And he sang every night as he went to bed, "Let us be happy down here below: The living should live, though the dead be dead." Said the jolly old pedagogue long ago.”
Source : George Arnold, “The Jolly Old Pedagogue”
