David Duffield Quotes

#1. What I want is the general betterment of pets. No-kill is a part of that. I'd like to see that policy enacted at all SPCA-type organizations around the country.

David Duffield

#2. And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

Kurt Vonnegut

#3. I had come out of retirement into a very difficult situation with the PeopleSoft takeover, got through it, and was having a good time, frankly. We just ran out of runway at PeopleSoft. Had we had another year, maybe two years, I think we would have made it.

David Duffield

#4. Love is an engraved invitation to grief.

Sunshine O'Donnell

#5. Then don't you dare tell me my dreams are insane! Because my dreams are what I live for!

Robert Thier

#6. I think I've done a good job in the industry from the standpoint of employee morale and customer satisfaction, and as an innovative thinker in tech.

David Duffield

#7. Keep a small can of WD-40 on your desk-away from any open flames-to remind yourself that if you don't write daily, you will get rusty.

George Singleton

#8. Desire consumes you, it takes you over. You forget yourself completely. All you can think about is the other, the one you desire, your self is just a fire.

Marilyn French

#9. He breathed once more, holding the air in his chest, as if it were not air but something more
a sweet taste of freedom, of all cares lifted, everything over and done.

Justin Cronin

#10. I don't want to scream 'Immigrant Song' every night for the rest of my life, and I'm not sure I could.

Robert Plant

#11. Yeah, I could go rock on the back porch and do crossword puzzles - but I've got six kids, ages 9 to 16, and someone in the family should work. That's me.

David Duffield

#12. I'm sort of a foot-on-the-gas kind of guy.

David Duffield

#13. I'll sweep the floors. I've picked up napkins in the men's room. I'm not above anything.

David Duffield

#14. It's a special thing to be a public company.

David Duffield

#15. With a private company, you've got to get into who's investing and what's the balance sheet like. So going public is a positive thing from the perspective of the sales organization.

David Duffield

#16. In an infinite Universe anything can happen.

Douglas Adams

#17. You don't know this when you're young, but over time, you see that great companies are usually built at a special point in time.

David Duffield

#18. Flame mails and offensive Internet activities are not classy. It doesn't fit with our culture here, where we respect the gender, race, opinions, ear-lobe apparel and choice of clothing of all employees.

David Duffield

#19. Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.

Epicurus

#20. If you're lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a skill.

Frank Langella

#21. Being nice and competitive are two different things.

David Duffield

#22. I just don't like being overweight.

David Duffield