"It's an old - and true - cliche that VCs rarely actually say 'no' - more often they say 'maybe', or 'not right now', or 'my partners aren't sure', or 'that's interesting, let me think about it'"

-- Marc Andreessen

#Thinking Quotes #Fundraising Quotes #Interesting Quotes

“a king can only work with his best tools.”
“You do just have to go back to moral philosophy and you've got to say, okay, there is greed, people do want more and more, but then what restrains them and what restrained them in the past was a view of life in which one's satisfaction wasn't the most important thing, that you just, you needed enough and you could say, "Enough is enough." Maybe religion will get you there, maybe just classic moral philosophy, but you have to have some of that, or else you're always on the gravy train.”
“My parents got married late and they had kids late, so I never felt a social or cultural thing to be married or pregnant or a homeowner by a certain age.”
“I'm always curious. Every day. As we get on in life, we must be grateful.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I use my single windup, my double windup, my triple windup, my hesitation windup, my no windup. I also use my step-n-pitch-it, my submariner, my sidearmer and my bat dodger. Man's got to do what he's got to do.”
“If you find diseases before they've really emerged, you can control them early on, before you get a major epidemic.”
“According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.”
“Ali kept calling me ugly, but I never thought of myself as being any uglier than him, I have 11 babies, somebody thought I was cute.”

Source : "Fire Still Burns Inside Smokin' Joe Frazier" by Vincent M. Mallozzi, www.nytimes.com. October 18, 2006.

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