Eric Lefkofsky Quotes

#1. I think there are four or five interesting pockets where a lot of cool technology companies are getting started. Chicago is one of them. New York is certainly another. Silicon Valley really dominates. And you're seeing some stuff out of Boston and Seattle and down South.

Eric Lefkofsky

#2. Studying doesn't have to happen in a silo. It can be a social experience. You can engage with your friends and family to find out the answer to a tough question or have someone explain it to you. You can also study anywhere you happen to be and on any device.

Eric Lefkofsky

#3. I'm going to be in technology for a long time.

Eric Lefkofsky

#4. The West coast money and the East coast money, in an ever-increasing manner, is finding its way to Chicago.

Eric Lefkofsky

#5. Think about the way most companies currently hire. You post a job and then get blind resumes in response. This should be a social experience.

Eric Lefkofsky

#6. TV can play a role in delivering that emotion as well as the obvious ability to reach a lot of people quickly with that message.

Jill McDonald

#7. Our ability to touch love and kindness and be touched by them lies buried below our own fears and hurts, below our greed and our hatreds, below our desperate clinging to the illusion that we are separate and alone.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#8. My weeks tend to differ pretty dramatically.

Eric Lefkofsky

#9. I've been part of founding three companies that have gone public. It doesn't seem like a big number, but it's actually a lot.

Eric Lefkofsky

#10. Any business that is looking for new customers needs to understand the Internet and how to market their goods or services through it.

Eric Lefkofsky

#11. The big success stories - Facebook, Zynga and Twitter - are leading to investing in ideas on a napkin, because no one wants to miss out on the next big thing.

Eric Lefkofsky

#12. We did not say: Don't drive. You're drunk.

John Green

#13. Let the novelists fret about consistency - story writers should feel free to jam; to get things right in new, surprising ways by allowing themselves, now and then, to get things wrong.

Walter Kirn

#14. Television is really what we've been looking for all our lives ... [It's] perfect. You turn a few knobs and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primordial ooze.

Raymond Chandler

#15. To me, no one has fully cracked the code on social recruiting yet.

Eric Lefkofsky

#16. I'm going to start a lot of companies. These are not sham companies. These are great businesses.

Eric Lefkofsky

#17. I had to find a relationship with someone who could simultaneously make me grow up and keep me forever young.

Portia De Rossi

#18. Everything created in the world should be seen in the context of existing for God's glory.

Ed Stetzer

#19. Take the most dangerous power in the South China Sea, China. While the century of humiliation at the hands of the Western powers "is a period etched in acid on the pages of Chinese student textbooks today,

Robert D. Kaplan

#20. Kamaswami entered, a swiftly, smoothly moving man with very gray hair, with very intelligent, cautious eyes, with a greedy mouth. Politely, the host and the guest greeted one another.

Hermann Hesse

#21. I produce music as an apple tree produces apples.

Camille Saint-Saens