Jeff Raikes Quotes

#1. I sent one e-mail in my life. I sent it to Jeff Raikes at Microsoft, and it ended up in court in Minneapolis, so I am one for one.

Warren Buffett

#2. In America, the least amusing people are its professional entertainers.

Neil Postman

#3. Finally, she'd given up, basking in the freaking glow of the most amazing experience she'd ever had.[ ... ] Last night had overflowed with magical trappings, perfect timing, everything. That wasn't real. In a real world, Cinderella had to go back to being Cinderella the next day.

Joey W. Hill

#4. There's always challenges to everything.

Howard Berger

#5. Only the Paranoid Survive...

Andrew Grove

#6. Even bad results teach you something, and you can learn your lessons and get better.

Jeff Raikes

#7. I'm tired of wasting letters when punctuation will do, period.

Steve Martin

#8. When families save, they can get through emergencies like a bad harvest or a medical emergency. But it's more than that. They can also plan for the future, gradually saving up for a small business or for their children's school tuition.

Jeff Raikes

#9. I'm a person who enjoys the hands-on experience of anything I do. Get your hands dirty - that's the thing that drives and motivates me.

Jeff Raikes

#10. At Microsoft, the magic of software is used to take on very interesting challenges.

Jeff Raikes

#11. Straight? So is spaghetti until you heat it up

Jet Mykles

#12. You know, being an entrepreneur is super hard work, and if you're not passionate about what you're doing, you're probably not going to succeed.

Jeff Raikes

#13. In business, there's a constant focus on developing strategies, reviewing executive performance against those strategies each year, engaging with opposing or different points of view, and having intellectual dialogue.

Jeff Raikes

#14. Lawyers don't run sales forces.

Jeff Raikes

#15. Tolerance is not infinite patience, but slain patience; patience that has lost its hope and love and has thrown in the towel.

Criss Jami

#16. The universe is not fair and it is never going to be fair.

Daniel Keys Moran

#17. You were born God's original. Try not to become someone's copy.

Marian Wright Edelman

#18. One of my great values that my father intuited, and indirectly taught me, is that you should always have a plan but be open to opportunity.

Jeff Raikes

#19. In business, the market gives you feedback in real time. Your sales figures tell you what's working, what isn't, and how you need to change. If you don't listen to the feedback, you go belly up. In philanthropy, there is no market.

Jeff Raikes

#20. Are you truly dirty if you don't take a shower every day? No, but you feel that way. It's the same with running. Just like a shower, running is part of my daily life.

Nina Kuscsik

#21. For the wise man delights in establishing his merit, the brave man likes to show his courage in action, the covetous man is quick at seizing advantages, and the stupid man has no fear of death.

Sun Tzu

#22. Many Americans feel themselves inferior in the presence of anyone with an English accent, which is why an English accent has become fashionable in television commercials; it is thought to sound authoritative.

Edwin Newman

#23. Enterprise search is becoming an indispensable tool to businesses of all sizes, helping people to find, use and share critical business information quickly.

Jeff Raikes

#24. In order to succeed ... you have to put a stake in the ground.

Jeff Raikes

#25. This man, although he appeared so humble and embarrassed in his air and manners, and passed so unheeded, had inspired me with such a feeling of horror by the unearthly paleness of his countenance, from which I could not avert my eyes, that I was unable longer to endure it.

Adelbert Von Chamisso