Brad Feld Quotes

#1. For it is only an appreciation of his love that can motivate genuine obedience.

Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

#2. The only thing that we know about financial predictions of start-ups is that 100 percent of them are wrong

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#3. Think about it for a brief moment. Suspend disbelief. Wind the clock forward 100 years. Do you think, as a species, we will still be struggling with the things that vex us today? Will we still be arguing about the same stuff? We will still be eating Cocoa Puffs? We are at the end of the beginning.

Brad Feld

#4. She shook her head. "You're insane."
"We're human, Cass. That's all. We're all kids playing grown-up. We do the best we can."
[Lucas to Cassandra]

Joey W. Hill

#5. The best thing you can do for someone is make them a beautiful plate of food. How else can you invade someone's body without actually touching them?

Padma Lakshmi

#6. From pitch perspective, the more you wear your idea, the more it fits you and your comfortable with it, the easier it is for somebody like me to say tell me more.

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#7. I dislike reading business books, although I skim a lot of them.

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#8. Once a quarter, Amy and I go off the grid and totally disconnect. It's totally doable and it will change your life.

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#9. For some reason, the concept of writing with swing chords was intimidating.

Suzy Bogguss

#10. Building a startup community is not a zero-sum game in which there are winners and losers: if everyone engages, they and the entire community can all be winners.

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#11. I'm very comfortable in the U.S. and Europe, but I feel completely out of place in the rest of the world, mostly because I never spent time outside the U.S. and Europe until I was in my 30s.

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#12. The religious belief varies from village to village. Nearly all worship the cholera and smallpox deities, and there are traces of serpent worship.

Paul Theroux

#13. While I'm a venture capitalist who invests in early-stage tech companies, I often feel like a professional emailer and conference call maker. I try to spend most of my time doing whatever the companies we are investors in need me to do.

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#14. Failure is a key part of entrepreneurship, but, as with many things in life, attitude impacts outcome

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#15. Computer science needs to be part of the core curriculum - like algebra, biology, physics, or chemistry. We need all schools to teach it, not just 10%.

Brad Feld

#16. Without Messi there isn't a team for Argentina, Messi is brilliant, different, with a strong mentality. Let's hope he doesn't change.

Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva

#17. I no longer really ever like to be pitched. Instead, I prefer to engage in a relationship as part of learning the other person.

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#18. It's a mystery. A man's at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with. He can know his heart, but he don't want to. Rightly so. Best not to look in there.

Cormac McCarthy

#19. I find increasingly that the more extreme are the things going on in your life, the more cultural reference points fail you. More mythical reference points actually help, and you realise that's what myths are for. It's for human beings to process their experience in extremis.

Michael Sheen

#20. You can't motivate people, you can only create a context in which people are motivated.

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#21. She couldn't avoid being serious about things she cared for, and happiness made her grave at the thought of all the things which might destroy it.

Graham Greene

#22. Startups are transforming our society. Over the past 100 years, we've gone from an industrial era, where a hierarchical structure dominated business and society, to a post information era where the network is rapidly disrupting the hierarchy and transforming the way we work and live,

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#23. The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue. Anonymous

Callie Smith Grant

#24. I feel good about the decisions that I made and I?m happy. You know, I?m really happy.

Tom Cruise

#25. Sam was your brother, and Trick was your friend, but what they did had nothing to do with you. You don't have to choose. Just because me and your dad couldn't live together, didn't mean you had to stop loving one of us, did it? Doesn't work like that. Love doesn't work like that.

C.J. Flood

#26. Science and theology are both lenses through which to interact with and interpret reality, sort of like a microscope and a pair of binoculars. Both sets of lenses tell us more about the world than we could see with the naked eye, but the information we get from each can diverge considerably.

T. Colin Campbell

#27. Make sure the thing you are working on is something you love.

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#28. Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.

Horace

#29. Failure is sometimes the best option if you view the process of entrepreneurship as a lifelong journey.

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