Top 87 Ferreira Quotes
#1. Life: You either play the hand you're dealt, or fold.....I choose to play.
~Rick Ferreira
Rick Ferreira
#2. When they find my lifeless body and they dedicate a song on the radio for me,
Lynette Ferreira
#3. Always know that I love you, and one day when you think back, I hope you will only have the nicest memories of me.
Lynette Ferreira
#4. Big data in education has huge potential to improve learning materials.
Jose Ferreira
#5. How could you know what it feels like to fight the hounds of hell?
Sky Ferreira
#6. Jeff Bezos was one of those best and brightest who came to N.Y. to work in finance. He didn't need to know anything about retail bookselling to start Amazon.
Jose Ferreira
#8. Sometimes, I am sad and so bitterly lonely and at times, I feel useless, as if I cannot accomplish even the simplest task.
Lynette Ferreira
#9. Venture capital today is clustered in just a few locations - Silicon Valley, New York, Boston, and D.C. It's far from efficiently distributed and accessible.
Jose Ferreira
#10. I sacrificed for only you. I loved you from that moment I felt you flutter in my womb.
Lynette Ferreira
#11. I don't really have the time or energy to be bad ...
Sky Ferreira
#12. Venture capitalists certainly create value for themselves, but they also singularly create value for the rest of the world.
Jose Ferreira
#13. We know everything about what you know and how you learn best because we get so much data. And education is the highest-stakes media product in your life. It's infinitely more important than your Facebook friends' status updates or your Google search results because it's your future.
Jose Ferreira
#14. Sex is one of God's gifts, just use it right.
Sky Ferreira
#15. When there were moments when I wondered how I would get through the night, you were there to comfort me, to hold me close. One look in your eyes anchored me, made me feel safe from the turmoil surrounding me.
Lynette Ferreira
#16. If the penalty for hiring illegals is just a fine, it becomes a business decision. But if the penalty is jail time, illegal immigration will come to a screeching halt.
Jose Ferreira
#17. I'm like the Christina Aguilera of the Internet.
Sky Ferreira
#18. It's not enough to have a value-adding product in a big market. You also need the right conditions. Will you be able to scale revenues within a 5-10 year time frame? Is the timing right? YouTube wouldn't have worked pre-broadband.
Jose Ferreira
#19. I'm pretty sarcastic, and sometimes that doesn't come across on the Internet. It seems like I'm being rude or stupid.
Sky Ferreira
#20. Education has always produced an incredible amount of data; that's always been obvious to me. But technology had to catch up.
Jose Ferreira
#21. Google's real threat to China is not that it will leave the country. It's that it will embarrass China and damage its national reputation as a place to do business.
Jose Ferreira
#22. Many venture capitalists say they're looking for the next big idea. But they aren't, really; they're looking for something derivative, because derivative is safe.
Jose Ferreira
#23. The factory model of education is a gargantuan bureaucracy. Some kids are good fits - I wasn't. The system gives you bad grades and tells you you're stupid. You don't think, 'If this kid's not a good fit, it could be the system's fault.'
Jose Ferreira
#24. If you judge me negatively, as you would a book by it's cover, you'd be surprised by what you see written on the pages inside
Rick Ferreira
#25. You may beat me up, but you can't beat me down, for I believe in the power of "me
Rick Ferreira
#26. I wanted to try something different. Most people my age go off to college; I thought I'd try out New York.
Sky Ferreira
#27. It is sometimes difficult to motivate yourself every day, and friendships and relationships might not be in the places you want them to be. Sometimes life might not unfold as we had hoped it would, and although life can seem complicated, it can also be good.
Lynette Ferreira
#28. I hate when people call me a socialite because you have to have money to be a socialite, which I don't have.
Sky Ferreira
#29. I spent most of my career in education and technology. I worked at Kaplan, and I was one of the first people trying to bring innovation into for-profit education.
Jose Ferreira
#30. I hate being forced to do things. I hate people telling me what to do, so I'll do the complete opposite. It's a bit self-destructive sometimes.
Sky Ferreira
#31. The fears and doubts I have are so real, so are they really as childish and silly as you always say they are.
Lynette Ferreira
#33. No one cares how valuable your product is if its addressable market is small. The key isn't so much the number of users as it is the dollar size of the market.
Jose Ferreira
#34. I started Knewton to do my bit to fix the world's education system.
Jose Ferreira
#35. Even if you were casted in Gold, it would not reflect your true value to me
Rick Ferreira
#36. When I awaken in the morning, I Thank God, not for my life, but for yours, because without you, I could not exsist
Rick Ferreira
#37. The best programmers and internet entrepreneurs are in the Bay Area. Don't kid yourself about that, not even for a second.
Jose Ferreira
#38. I wasn't allowed to watch MTV before school, but somehow I managed to, when I was five or six and Fiona Apple's video for "Criminal" came on. She was so odd and dark, and I immediately felt some kind of connection with her. She was also the first person I admired for their looks.
Sky Ferreira
#39. Anything I do, I learn about first. I am not in favour of improvisation; I believe in work and in learning
Ferreira Gullar
#40. Venture capitalists buy minority positions in young companies they think will grow quickly; buy-out investors buy most or all of companies they think can be turned around by fixing a few basic things.
Jose Ferreira
#41. In your eyes,
there is sunshine
In your arms,
there is warmth
In your words,
there is Love
In your Love,
there is life
In your life,
let there be me
Rick Ferreira
#43. If your business had no risk, you could go get a bank loan and call it a day. VCs like risks - without them, venture capital wouldn't exist. But they need to be risks that VCs are good at assessing and managing.
Jose Ferreira
#44. You came into my life when I was alone, with not another person to call my own. You mended the broken shreds of my heart.
Lynette Ferreira
#45. I wear whatever makes me comfortable on stage, so that I feel confident. Some days it's a plaid skirt with a button-up and other days it's jeans with a hockey jersey and platforms.
Sky Ferreira
#46. I'm not some sort of puppet. Like, there isn't a team of people telling me what to do.
Sky Ferreira
#47. you are not a product of society, you are a product of your choices, and decisions....you set the direction of your life, not others
Rick Ferreira
#48. Google, Facebook, and other consumer web companies violate our privacy. But that's only because they have an ad-based business model. They can only make money by selling your data - and degrading the product experience with ads.
Jose Ferreira
#49. I think there's a lot of unnecessary bullshit on the Internet. You can drown in it.
Sky Ferreira
#50. I started making music professionally when I was 14.
Sky Ferreira
#51. What N.Y.C. does attract, year in and year out, is the very best general talent from around the world. The absolute smartest, neurons-just-fire-faster, can-bend-spoons-with-their-mind talent.
Jose Ferreira
#52. The Blues are a simple music and I'm a simple man. But the Blues aren't a science, the Blues can't be broken down like mathematics. The Blues are a mystery, and mysteries are never as simple as they look!
Johnny Ferreira
#53. When I write songs for myself it's really personal and I just can't have someone else singing it.
Sky Ferreira
#54. I've always made music - pretty much since I was born.
Sky Ferreira
#55. No, it is not the same, everyday is different and special, never to be taken for granted.
Lynette Ferreira
#56. The San Francisco Bay Area has more VC firms and dollars invested than all East Coast cities combined.
Jose Ferreira
#57. Dreams do come true. They definitely do come true. It just takes a while, I guess. Sometimes it doesn't, but for me it did, anyway.
Sky Ferreira
#58. I had started teaching because I love brainteasers. At some point, I had taken every standardized test out there - the SATs, the GREs, the GMATs, the MCATs. I just took them for fun.
Jose Ferreira
#59. It is intellectually dishonest to lump venture investors with hedge fund and buy-out investors.
Jose Ferreira
#60. For those who think they are perfect, have just found their first flaw
Rick Ferreira
#61. You never know what's going to be considered a hit, or what people are going to like.
Sky Ferreira
#62. In a crisis, markets always look to see who is the next-worst off and proactively begin shying away from them.
Jose Ferreira
#63. Education is among the most important problems we face because it's the ultimate 'gateway' problem. That is, it drives virtually every global problem that we face as a species. But there's a flip-side: if we can fix education, then we'll dramatically improve the other problems, too.
Jose Ferreira
#64. Immigration has defined my entire life. My parents left Mozambique with nothing but their wits in search of a better life for their kids. They moved to England in the 1970s, saw the classism there, and left for America soon after.
Jose Ferreira
#65. Big data has been used by human beings for a long time - just in bricks-and-mortar applications. Insurance and standardized tests are both examples of big data from before the Internet.
Jose Ferreira
#66. I have dreams and hopes, but sometimes I think they just are not enough.
Lynette Ferreira
#67. A lot of social media saved my ass, so I'm totally for it.
Sky Ferreira
#68. I didn't grow up in a regular upbringing. I ended up at my grandmother's house past a certain age, so I took care of things myself. I moved out of home when I was 16.
Sky Ferreira
#69. The darkest hour is always just before dawn." Sometimes in our darkest hour we can feel so hopeless, so rejected, so unloved, unwanted and discarded, but imagine when dawn eventually arrived, how we could shine!!
Lynette Ferreira
#70. I like writing different types of music. I don't like being stuck into one thing.
Sky Ferreira
#72. I feel like I didn't know who I was when I was 15. I don't feel like you're who you are for life, not even when you're 20.
Sky Ferreira
#73. Because, we're evolutionarily programmed to over eat if possible.
Andrew Ferreira
#74. Have you ever tried to find the words to say something, but no matter what you think of saying, you know it might come out wrong?
Lynette Ferreira
#75. Anyone who sincerely wanted to use policy to reduce illegal immigration should start by crafting legislation based on changing actual behavior.
Jose Ferreira
#76. The fashion community has really embraced me, which has been helpful with getting my music out.
Sky Ferreira
#77. There's people trying to tell me what to do, but I'm not like some marketing scam.
Sky Ferreira
#78. Just because you have a blog doesn't mean that you should, like, lie for no reason.
Sky Ferreira
#79. I'm definitely a crier. I get really emotional if someone's being rude or says something mean about me.
Sky Ferreira
#80. It's like, are you kidding me? I'd sell way more if I just put a picture of my face. That's the fact. I'd sell more copies of me just looking cute. That's what sells more. That's what sells at Wal-Mart. Not someone in a bathtub looking like they're about to kill someone. Topless.
Sky Ferreira
#81. You need more than just a great idea. Your product or service must add an enormous amount of value to some industry. If the idea isn't completely new, it has to be better, cheaper, or more efficient than what we already have.
Jose Ferreira
#82. you cannot overcome something, without first standing toe to toe with it, then challenging yourself to defeat that which you want to change
Rick Ferreira
#83. Stop pretending there's anything wrong with businesspeople hiring diligent laborers who will work for less. Let employers sponsor any worker and argue for why that worker should be given citizenship. Such a vetting mechanism would naturally promote the best and hardest-working.
Jose Ferreira
#84. I'm a boots girl. I always wear boots. They only look better when they get dirty.
Sky Ferreira
#85. Data adds concrete information to a teacher's observations and intuition, but it will never replace experience, personal relationships, and cultural understanding.
Jose Ferreira
#86. You know, once you start calculating you shit yourself up before you know it.
Pedro G. Ferreira
#87. I live not with the intent of leaving my mark in this world, but rather with the intent of leaving my imprint on your heart
Rick Ferreira
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