Dave Goldberg Quotes

#1. In general, you don't want competitors to understand your business outside of telling people your revenue and profitability numbers.

Dave Goldberg

#2. I am at home with my kids from 6 to 8. If I have a work dinner, I'll schedule to have dinner after 8. But we're working at night. You'll get plenty of emails from me post-8 P.M. when my kids go to bed.

Dave Goldberg

#3. Things are bad in 2001 at Yahoo. There's been layoffs, restructuring, lots of people left.

Dave Goldberg

#4. I run the largest survey company in the world. It just so happens to be the second-largest company run by someone in my house.

Dave Goldberg

#5. Sometimes the things you decide not to do are actually the biggest things to do in your career.

Dave Goldberg

#6. Most of what we've done at SurveyMonkey is create a market, which I would say is much harder than trying to enter a market that already exists. But if you get it right, it can become a great business.

Dave Goldberg

#7. The meaning of life is that it ends.

Franz Kafka

#8. If you use your old business models to restrict people, they're going to find ways to get that content the way they want it.

Dave Goldberg

#9. I show Dave the dummy for my book. He reads every bit of writing, looks at every picture, and asks no questions. When he's done, he wipes his hands on the book.

Jim Goldberg

#10. I really like the mission at SurveyMonkey, which is, we help people make better decisions. It's just a great thing.

Dave Goldberg

#11. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have,

Josh McDowell

#12. I'm not sure the least educated members of the population are missing out on the advances in medical technology as much as they are adopting harmful behavioral habits that shorten their life.

S. Jay Olshansky

#13. I want to go public because I have the right reason to go public - because the benefits outweigh the costs.

Dave Goldberg

#14. The cult of Mao and the cult of Lei Feng were two faces of the same coin: one was the cult of personality; the other, its essential corollary, was the cult of impersonality

Jung Chang

#15. I grew up in L.A., and I don't think I've seen L.A. onscreen in a way that felt real to me. There are definitely movies, but they are few and far between.

Zoe Kazan

#16. I really don't have the time to spend much time online, I do have web tv, which I use when I need information.

Gabrielle Reece

#17. One of the most talented, smartest people happens to be my wife, so I can get great advice from her. She obviously knows me incredibly well and what I'm going through. I don't know that I've been as helpful to her as she has been to me.

Dave Goldberg

#18. A thing is symmetrical if there is something you can do to it so that after you have finished doing it, it looks the same as before.

Dave Goldberg

#19. I save everything up until Sunday night because if I start sending emails on Saturday afternoon, then people have to start responding to me on Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning.

Dave Goldberg

#20. I think Salesforce, going public very early on before they were profitable, it made a lot of sense for them because it got customers comfortable that these guys were going to have capital and be transparent about their business.

Dave Goldberg

#21. For me, going home at 5:30 is as much about my own choices, but also giving my team those choices, too.

Dave Goldberg

#22. I made my kids into Viking fans, so they will carry their misery with them, too. A little disappointment in life goes a long way.

Dave Goldberg

#23. I started my business with my best friend from high school.

Dave Goldberg

#24. By Gaia's left breast, Hades, you really are a moron,

Mercedes Lackey

#25. Rebus was eating breakfast in the canteen and wishing there was more caffeine in the coffee, or more coffee in the coffee come to that.

Ian Rankin

#26. 'Cosmopolitan' used to publish five covers across the U.S. so that if one was unpopular, it wouldn't tank their entire sales.

Dave Goldberg

#27. The most important thing about education is appetite.

Winston S. Churchill

#28. The NBC using us on air is a great endorsement of quality.

Dave Goldberg

#29. We do not explain my husband's insane abuse
and we do not say why your wild-haired wife has fled
or that my father opened like a walnut and then was dead.
Your palms fold over me like knees. Love is the only use.

Anne Sexton

#30. I mean, they say they've gotta change the street kids' lives. Well, that's true. But you can't take somebody from point A to point Z overnight. You can't make me a fucking suburban teenager now, after what's gone down. It'll never happen.

Jim Goldberg

#31. My closest adviser is my wife. It's nice to have one of the smartest people in business as your life partner, and someone you have dinner with and breakfast with.

Dave Goldberg

#32. Dave: 'Will you ever be happy Echo?'
Echo: 'I don't know I haven't tried it yet.'
Dave: 'Let's give it a shot together.'
Echo: 'Let's spread fire instead.

Jim Goldberg

#33. Quit looking for an answer, Jim. There fuckin' ain't one. Fuck yeah, I'm still looking for God's telephone number.

Jim Goldberg

#34. When you're friends with someone, you can't just go out to dinner and say 'O.K., now this is a date.' You've got to do something very different.

Dave Goldberg

#35. I just find that people can waste a lot of time in meetings, so I try to restrict meetings to the minimum that they need to be. But I have lots of time in my day where I am available to have informal conversations, where I grab someone to talk, and people can just walk up to my desk and talk to me.

Dave Goldberg

#36. Viserys sold my mother's crown, and men called him a beggar. I shall keep this one, so men will call me a queen. (Daenerys)

George R R Martin

#37. I go home, I have dinner with my wife and kids, and after my kids go to bed, I'm back online doing stuff.

Dave Goldberg

#38. There's not a whole lot of advantage for a company to be public.

Dave Goldberg

#39. Sometimes I wish I was more comfortable just saying what I thought and getting my point across.

Maisie Williams

#40. You might not think it now, but if you're one of God's children, you're going to figure it out by the end of your life God is good.

James MacDonald