Dan Levitan Quotes

#1. I like the strategy of finding great entrepreneurs early, giving them some money, helping them a little - perhaps not as much as we would a regular core investment.

Dan Levitan

#2. Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors.

John F. Kennedy

#3. We always talk about how you have to build a brand from the inside out, not the outside in. Brands are not wrappers. Brands are based on the values of the founders, and then they spread to the people who work for the company, and then that psychological contract is spread to the customer.

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#4. There are lots of ways to make money in venture capital, and there are even more ways to be mediocre. The industry has too much money and too many smart people chasing too few great entrepreneurs.

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#5. We aren't going to let our first investment be the best.

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#6. Man's ethics must not end with man, but should extend to the universe. He must regain the consciousness of the great Chain of Life from which he cannot be separated.

Albert Schweitzer

#7. Seattle is a fantastic place to build a great technology-enabled consumer company.

Dan Levitan

#8. The law works fear and wrath; grace works hope and mercy.

Martin Luther

#9. Football is my love. Football is what I'm going to do. I'm a football player first.

Tony Gonzalez

#10. I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man: It is we.

Konrad Lorenz

#11. My concern is that somebody would make a decision against Christianity because of Mr. Trump's behavior.

Max Lucado

#12. You find that you can have the best business in the most exciting industry, but if the execution, if the torch-holder, if the value-creator isn't there, then we don't make it happen.

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#13. We're not running the ball again until we get ahead. Shula was calling the plays, but I told them, 'I don't care what he calls. We're throwing every pass from now until we get the lead.' To Shula's credit, he always gave me that option.

Dan Marino

#14. I knew this girl named Tropicana,
She's always juicin'.
Producing cash for a sexual task.
She loves men that trick like Halloween and treat ...
You ain't paid? Then your grade is incomplete.

Lord Jamar

#15. Congratulations," she said. "You win.

Megan Duke

#16. Some of the best ideas that we've invested in have made no sense to conventional sources.

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#17. We believed the world didn't need another commoditized venture capital firm.

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#18. In the web products and services world, you have a real-time interaction with your customers, and then a real-time editing of how you as a company are doing.

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#19. I think that if you ask what's made us successful, it's because we've been fortunate enough to identify, in a number of cases, great people early. Then we throw all the resources behind them and are aligned with them.

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#20. I think each one of us has committed to improving.

Jimmy Haynes

#21. Arousal is nature's stimulus for the propagation of the human race. The unaroused male of the species is as useless for that purpose as a worm. Arousal can happen sooner or later, but it must happen.

Sol Stein

#22. God loved us before he made us; and his love has never diminished and never shall.

Julian Of Norwich

#23. If there's one thing I can't abide it's fanatics of any kind, and religious ones are the worst of all.

Michael Morpurgo

#24. I'm saying there's plenty of money out there for great consumer entrepreneurs with great consumer products attacking really big markets.

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#25. As a lot of the venture capital world seems to be shifting away from consumer, we want to make sure that consumer entrepreneurs know there's still money available.

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#26. We can find a great sector or business, but we're investing so early that unless there's this tenacious grit, determination, resourcefulness, ability to evolve, it won't work.

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