"I like to bet on people, especially those who have taken risks and failed in some way, because they have more real-world experience. And theyâ€™re humble."

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Source : "Are You a C.E.O. of Something?". Interview with Adam Bryant, www.nytimes.com. January 30, 2010.

Mark Pincus

#Real Quotes #Taken Quotes #Humble Quotes

“An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.”
“Fold and live to fold again.”
“Bigamy is two rites that make a wrong.”

Source : Jacob Morton Braude (1965). “Definitions and toasts”
“A lot of people telling the same story from their various points of view.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I love to live well, I love to eat well, I love to buy beautiful things, and to give a fantastic time to my friends.”
“It's what I've trained for, from the first sketch to the fabric. Making dresses that are different from the usual style, and a lot of fun to wear.”
“I think the more you have a generalist perspective, I think sometimes the more you can kind of see through the forest and the trees. And when it gets a little bit cloudy, you know, have some sense of, "Well, maybe this might happen or maybe that might happen." So I really am a big believer in liberal arts education. I think it's better - particularly in these kind of uncertain times - to know a little bit about a lot of things as opposed to being expert in one thing.”
“It's horrifying and absurd to think that there are currently more slaves on earth than at any other time in human history.”

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