Quotes
Authors
David Ulevitch
"Running a successful, growing company in Silicon Valley can create an ironic sort of depression and delusion. The better you're doing, the higher the stakes, and higher expectations for you to win. Maybe that's why people say it's so hard. But that doesn't make it hard. That just makes it distracting." --
Source : "Honestly, It's Not All That Hard To Start A Company" by David Ulevitch, www.businessinsider.com. November 20, 2012.
David Ulevitch
#Running Quotes
#Successful Quotes
#Winning Quotes
“Never answer an anonymous letter.”
“Unfortunately, once I did learn to smoke, I couldn't stop. I escalated to two packs a day very quickly, and stayed that way for about ten years. When I decided to stop, I adopted the method that my father had used when he quit. He would carry a cigarette in his shirt pocket, and every time he felt like smoking, he would pull out the cigarette and confront it: "Who stronger? You? Me?" Always the answer was the same: "I stronger." Back the cigarette would go, until the next craving. It worked for him, and it worked for me.”
“Basketball is a simple game. Your goal is penetration, get the ball close to the basket, and there are three ways to do that. Pass, dribble and offensive rebound.”
“Am going to cross Pacific on a wooden raft to support a theory that the South Sea islands were peopled from Peru. Will you come? I guarantee nothing but a free trip to Peru and the South Sea islands and back, but you will find good use for your technical abilities on the voyage. Reply at once.' Next day the following telegram arrived from Torstein: COMING. TORSTEIN.”
Source : Thor Heyerdahl (1990). “Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft”, p.33, Simon and Schuster
“You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.”
“Americans are very mobile and move around and choose the communities they want. On the ocean people would be even more mobile and empowered to link up with people they enjoyed, and detach and move away from people they did not. Increasing choice is a way to foster fulfillment in people's lives. I choose my friends and I'd prefer to choose my neighbors too.”
Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Fortunately for children, the uncertainties of the present always give way to the enchanted possibilities of the future.”
“Artists are often poignantly careless about making and keeping friends.”
