"I think you're defined as a company by what you choose to do and what you choose not to do."

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Source : "Zynga CEO Mark Pincus on the future of the company: part one". Interview with Keith Stuart, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2012.

Mark Pincus

#Thinking Quotes #Company Quotes #You Choose Quotes

“I always prayed that God would give me the wisdom and the vision to do the things on this earth that I was supposed to do to express His life and love and His will.”
“The business plan should address: "How will I get customers? How will I market the product or service? Who will I target?" The principles of a business plan are pretty much the same. But after page one to two, everything is unpredictable, because costs or competition will change and you don't know how things will be received by the market. You have to be able to continually adapt. Companies that fail to adapt will die. Others are brilliant at adapting.”
“All is known in the sacredness of silence.”
“All of us inevitably spend our lives evolving from an initial to a final stage of dependence. If we are fortunate enough to achieve power and relative independence along the way, it is a transient and passing glory.”
“Yeah, I think it motivates you as people start to count you out. It doesn't make you play any harder, because every time you go out on the field you give 110 percent, but it does give you more of an edge mentally, knowing that you were in the same situation, because in sports you always find yourself behind.”

Source : "Joe Montana discusses SF Giants, 49ers quarterback". Interview with Brian Murphy, Paul McCaffrey, www.sfgate.com. August 27, 2011.
“There are so many things in human living that we should regard not as traumatic learning but as incomplete learning, unfinished learning.”
“The War on Drugs, cloaked in race-neutral language, offered whites opposed to racial reform a unique opportunity to express their hostility toward blacks and black progress, without being exposed to the charge of racism.”

Source : Michelle Alexander (2013). “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”, p.54, The New Press
“France has been very good for me. It has given me a very worldly-cool attitude.”

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