Jim Breyer Quotes

#1. No; he is not a man that it is easy to draw out, though he can be communicative enough when the fancy seizes him.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#2. The position of women, that sad and well-nigh universal blot on civilizations, was never far from her mind.

Rose Macaulay

#3. I fundamentally believe in term limits, for Congress, presidents, and board members.

Jim Breyer

#4. A woman who has style doesn't necessarily need designers - designer wear. A woman who has style can put on any frock or dress or pant or whatever and still bring something to it.

Bethann Hardison

#5. The innovation industries are rapidly going global. In five years, more than 50% of venture capital returns will come from markets outside the United States, including China, India, Brazil, and Australia, and AlwaysOn events are on top of these trends.

Jim Breyer

#6. I've always felt that long, slow distance produces long, slow runners.

Sebastian Coe

#7. I feel there is so much more we can do in improving education, making it accessible and understanding how technology can be a part of the solution.

Jim Breyer

#8. Our lives are marked and shaped by our regrets. Things we all want to take back and can't. In a perfect world, we would never hurt the ones we love or cause hurt to befall them. But the world isn't perfect and neither are we.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#9. Young people: They care. They know that this is the world that they're going to grow up in, that they're going to spend the rest of their lives in. But, I think it's more idealistic than that. They actually believe that humanity, human species, has no right to destroy and despoil regardless.

David Attenborough

#10. I did Chicago on Broadway the year before last. That was a great opportunity and I had a blast.

Kevin Richardson

#11. Say a prayer for those in despair. May all their tomorrows be sunny and bright ... filled with hope to conquer over all their troubles!

Timothy Pina

#12. I want to make as much of a contribution as I can, to Harvard, to higher education and hopefully, to education around the world.

Jim Breyer

#13. I've tried to be active in civic organizations as well as the Church.

Margaret D. Nadauld

#14. An angel in heaven I've told already; but I want to tell an angel on earth.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#15. Eliot said that "genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood." What he meant by that is, the emotional understanding comes before you understand the argument that follows later in the text.

Fred D'Aguiar

#16. Startup success is driven most by the product passion, quality, vision, team-work and persistence of the founding team and the talent that the team attracts.

Jim Breyer

#17. Jesus is the ultimate solution to every human problem and the ultimate hope for all mankind.

Rick Joyner

#18. The collision of mobile and social platforms and the need to build these companies from the ground up - whether it's a game, a healthcare application, an education application - building these from the ground up is what allows entrepreneurial activity to be unleashed.

Jim Breyer

#19. I think that we should all be defined by our work and our results.

Jim Breyer

#20. Love is not a plant of slow growth.

May Agnes Fleming

#21. Never question your ability to overcome obstacles. Question your inability to overcome those obstacles.

Lorenzo Victory

#22. I hope that people will be held accountable, even if accountability just means naming it and letting the citizens of the country know where you're at. I think that has a huge impact on the way people think.

Christy Clark