Top 100 Maris's Quotes
#1. You think I don't know that, Cai?" Maris asked. "I live with him. He jumps at any sudden sound. Pulls a blaster on you if you so much as sneeze unexpectedly. And if that's not bad enough, he's walking around wired with enough explosives to take out half the capital city." Maris's
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#2. During the 2000 bubble, many companies rushed to go public before they had any revenue.
Bill Maris
#3. We make a series of investments, some will pan out and some won't.
Bill Maris
#4. I can make it very clear: I get paid if we make good investments. And if we don't, I don't get paid. I have no incentive to sell our companies to Google; the entrepreneurs get to decide that. We are minority shareholders.
Bill Maris
#5. As a ballplayer, I would be delighted to do it again. As an individual, I doubt if I could possibly go through it again.
Roger Maris
#6. Government is really successful when it's willing to make big, bold objectives, like, 'We're going to get to the moon.' But without leaders with big ideas, we get stuck.
Bill Maris
#7. Humans are terrible at predicting the future. We really overestimate what we can do in the short term and underestimate what we can do in the long term ... If we can glimpse even a couple of years into the future, even that's difficult to do.
Bill Maris
#8. We have this powerful lever at Google Ventures, which is to invest $200 million a year. This is a huge lever. It's not all going into one place; it's going into lots of start ups and founders and entrepreneurs, all of which are levers to try and change the world in one way or another.
Bill Maris
#9. Organizing healthcare information is a daunting task, but it is not an impossible task. We've had people walk on the moon. This is a lot more doable.
Bill Maris
#10. We can get much better outcomes from people if we understand the genetic basis of the exact cancer that they have, what interventions might be most effective against it, what's worked in the past and what hasn't.
Bill Maris
#11. It was the feel of it, the love of it, not the thought: it was instinct and reflex and knowing the wind, and Maris was the wind.
Lisa Tuttle
#12. I sign off not only every investment, but every dollar that goes out the door - I'm aware of it.
Bill Maris
#13. With a regular venture fund, you raise, let's say, a billion dollars, and then over the next three or four years, you've got to invest that money; otherwise, the people who invested with you will say, 'What are you doing? You're just collecting fees on our money.'
Bill Maris
#14. Maris squeezed her lightly. "It's all right, though. Really. While the rest of my family refuses to speak my name, I have the best brother anyone could ever ask for. One who isn't afraid to let me be myself. One who wouldn't hesitate to die for me. In the end, I'm the luckiest bitch in the universe.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#15. In genomics, there's a massive amount of information in which you can look for patterns and develop insights.
Bill Maris
#17. We actually have the tools in the life sciences to achieve anything that you have the audacity to envision. I just hope to live long enough not to die.
Bill Maris
#18. When you apply computer science and machine learning to areas that haven't had any innovation in 50 years, you can make rapid advances that seem really incredible.
Bill Maris
#19. I'd gone from unapologetically commit-o-phobic to rom-com heroine in a few months
Maris Black
#20. As life expectancy extends beyond 80 years in some parts of the world, more people are struggling with brain diseases. For older people, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and other conditions become a major impediment to quality of life.
Bill Maris
#21. People talk about the redistribution of wealth a lot, which is a very valid topic. But what about the redistribution of health? That's even more concentrated at the top.
Bill Maris
#22. Getting struck by lightning changes your electrical makeup, so that every time you're struck, you're just that much more likely to be struck again.
Maris Black
#23. CEOs who can hire properly, that's the most important part of the job. The CEO's job is really to hire the right team and execute the vision second.
Bill Maris
#24. The greatest thing I ever saw was Roger Maris breaking Babe Ruth's record.
Mickey Mantle
#25. Candlestick was built on the water. It should have been built under it.
Roger Maris
#26. He glanced absently down at the front of the shirt as he attempted to smooth out the wrinkles, but then he caught sight of the slogan: Skilled in Every Position. He cocked an eyebrow at me. "You trying to tell me something?" My face burned red. "It's a basketball thing.
Maris Black
#27. The reality is the technology exists now to extend life and have people live healthier, happier lives. Not to be kind of immortal - that's not what I'm talking about.
Bill Maris
#28. That thing I liked to call a brain had already flipped around the Out to Lunch sign.
Maris Black
#29. There are a number of start-ups in Europe that are able to reach beyond their own country. Take Spotify - Spotify just in Sweden isn't that interesting compared to Spotify all over the world.
Bill Maris
#30. I thought of my often-dream where Time poured the fishes into the sky and the sky was full of star fish; stella maris of the upper air.
Jeanette Winterson
#31. I'm sure you do know how to pick guys back on the farm, but this is a whole different world. You can't just grunt and bend some guy over your tractor.
Maris Black
#32. Can I be your daddy now?" he asked, resting his hand on the wall behind my head and leaning in.
Maris Black
#33. This is for you, for us. I wanted a tattoo of you on my skin, because I can't show you the one you've already left on my heart.
Gina L. Maxwell
#34. I used to be a health-care investor a long time ago in the public markets. One thing I learned that we tried to apply here is that investing in small molecules, trying to invest in the next treatment, there's an element of gambling to that.
Bill Maris
#35. Yeah, it's true. I've got a boyfriend. Outside of the octagon, outside of this business, he's my world. Nobody even comes close.
Maris Black
#36. You want to work with people you are excited about and they are excited about you. It's a two-way street.
Bill Maris
#37. When you build relationships with entrepreneurs, they're not trying to optimize on price.
Bill Maris
#38. Ratio et prudentia curas,
Non locus effusi late maris arbiter, aufert.
[it is reason and wisdom which take away cares, not places affording wide views over the sea.]
Horace
#39. Maris couldn't help how he felt. Darling owned him. He always had. Even though they could and would never be anything more than best friends, Darling was his heart.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#40. All the information in the world has been pretty dispersed, but Google's mission has been to organize it and make it universally accessible.
Bill Maris
#41. Beck, this is not a good idea, hon. Oh my God, that is one hot little piece of disaster right there. Walk away while you still can, Beck. Oh sh*t. It's already too late, isn't it?
Maris Black
#42. Every day I went to the ballpark in Yankee Stadium as well as on the road people were on my back. The last six years in the American League were mental hell for me. I was drained of all my desire to play baseball.
Roger Maris
#43. If I were to leave and raise a venture fund, I would have to find 10 or 100 LPs. They would all give me a bunch of money, and I would take a percentage of that to pay myself. They would expect me to invest that over the next three years, and they want that money back in seven or eight years.
Bill Maris
#44. What are you doing?" I growled, sounding more amused than the angry I was going for. "Trying to keep you here," he said earnestly, locking his eyes on mine. "You can stay in my bedroom, and we'll just lock the door and have mad sex twenty-four-seven.
Maris Black
#45. Google Ventures has a direct financial incentive to ensure the companies we invest in succeed.
Bill Maris
#46. It's like obituaries, when you die they finally give you good reviews.
Roger Maris
#47. Google was a venture-funded company. Being part of that brings an energy to the company.
Bill Maris
#48. We are looking for highly technical, enthusiastic and capable entrepreneurs who have a healthy disregard for the impossible, and that's not always easy to find.
Bill Maris
#49. Big ideas we tend to like are the ones that seem impossible or crazy.
Bill Maris
#50. Not many venture firms have people whose job is to read academic research - on startups, ventures, and entrepreneurs - and gather knowledge from that.
Bill Maris
#51. It's a business. If I could make more money down in the zinc mines I'd be mining zinc.
Roger Maris
#52. It's all about perspective, my friend. That and the ability to duck fast when life throws excrement at you."
-Maris
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#53. I never wanted all this hoopla. All I wanted was to be a good ball player and hit twenty-five or thirty homers, drive in a hundred runs, hit .280 and help my club win pennants. I just wanted to be one of the guys, an average player having a good season.
Roger Maris
#54. Don't quote me on this, but if they ever manage to ban beer advertising in baseball you can kiss the national pastime goodbye.
Roger Maris
#55. It would have been a helluva lot more fun if I had not hit those sixty-one home runs.
Roger Maris
#56. Shall I show you the door ... or would you rather go out through the wall? - Maris
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#57. Venture funds get beaten up for not investing in important things. Okay, if you want venture funds to invest in important things, then don't penalize or make fun of them when those important things don't work.
Bill Maris
#58. All of these guys have got someone to go home to after the fight. They've got their baby, I've got mine: Jamie Atwood. That's who I love. He's the one I go home to at night, and who patches me up after I get beaten down.
Maris Black
#59. If you want to invest in early-stage technologies, putting a timeframe on it does behold you to Silicon Valley economics. You've got a certain time period where you have to make the money. And you have to invest that money whether you find good companies or not.
Bill Maris
#60. Lucy Marie Maris ... I am completely and utterly in love with you. And as god is my witness- no matter how long it takes- someday I will be worthy enough to be your husband, because I can't bear the thought of living without you.
Gina L. Maxwell
#61. I don't know if I want to go to New York. They'll have to pay me a lot more money because I like it here in Kansas City.
Roger Maris
#62. Antibiotics are so pervasive that they are often prescribed preemptively, as soon as patients report symptoms, before a diagnosis is made.
Bill Maris
#63. Maybe I'm not a great man but I damn well want to break the record.
Roger Maris
#64. I felt the slippery ooze of precum, slicking the way as Kage's cock kissed and caressed mine between our bellies. Then he rolled us over and removed my shirt. When
Maris Black
#65. No one else has to live my life but me, and I'm gonna do it my way.
Maris Black
#66. I feel that I was a good all-around player, I had good speed, a good arm and could play the outfield.
Roger Maris
#67. The strain on Roger (Maris) was unbelievable. After I dropped out the reporters only had one guy to go to. They surrounded him everywhere he went. He had big clumps of hair falling out. That he went ahead and did it was unbelievable.
Mickey Mantle
#68. VC firms are ... responsible for the full life cycle of a company: they find it, help it grow, open up a Rolodex, and sell it.
Bill Maris
#69. If you're a technology investor, and you decide that you're also going to be a healthcare investor or a green-tech investor, that doesn't usually work out that well. There are reasons why people make their careers studying these things and becoming experts.
Bill Maris
#70. The reality is regulation often lags behind innovation.
Bill Maris
#71. There was this cheap motel on the outskirts of town called the Tick-Tock Inn, with green-and-yellow vinyl curtains and beds that smelled like mothballs and ass.
Maris Black
#73. I loved dinosaurs, I loved space, and I thought maybe I'd be the first paleo-astronaut.
Bill Maris
#74. Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was.
Mickey Mantle
#75. When one lifts a ballerina, it is not her weight but her nature that causes the problem.
Maris Liepa
#76. Time is the one thing I can't get back and can't give back to you.
Bill Maris
#77. I squirmed in my hiding spot. Do something, people," I urged. Say something. The silence dragged on. I imagined my first report to Maris. "We have underestimated our enemy. They are lethal. We are in serious danger of the Hancocks boring us to death. Abort, abort, abort.
Anne Greenwood Brown
#78. The reality is if you were going to die tomorrow, and someone offered you another 10 years, most people would take those 10 years.
Bill Maris
#79. I contemplated a career at NIH at one point. I have a neuroscience background.
Bill Maris
#80. I would draw a really big distinction between competition, or potential competition, and a conflict of interest. A conflict of interest implies wrongdoing, whereas competition is really healthy.
Bill Maris
#81. I don't want to take anything away from Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle. They're both great hitters, but they're batting against guys they never would have seen in previous years.
Ted Williams
#82. I think the most privacy I had was when the game was going on.
Roger Maris
#83. Back in the late 1990s, venture capitalists got very excited about the Internet. A whole lot of money was poured into some companies that failed rather spectacularly, and a lot of people lost a lot of money.
Bill Maris
#84. He started talking, and what he said changed all of our lives forever. "Mommy," he mumbled, and Dr. Tanner and I both started.
Maris Black
#85. Call me crazy, but I'd like to feel special to someone for a change. I need to know there's someone out there who even gives a shit if I wake up in the morning, or if I even live and breathe at all.
Maris Black
#86. I don't want to be Babe Ruth. He was a great ballplayer. I'm not trying to replace him. The record is there and damn right I want to break it, but that isn't replacing Babe Ruth.
Roger Maris
#87. I'm interested in the ideas that sound a little crazy, such as radical life extension, curing cancer, being able to create a simulation of the human brain and map every neuron.
Bill Maris
#88. Silicon Valley has been a technology capital like New York is a financial capital.
Bill Maris
#89. Roger (Maris)
was a class act and I know exactly what he went through.
Mark McGwire
#90. If I'm an entrepreneur, and I have a term sheet from Sequoia and Kleiner, that's the safe choice. Google Ventures is the brave choice.
Bill Maris
#91. I think back and I really feel for what he (Roger Maris) went through, for all the negative stuff that was going on in his life. I wish it didn't happen.
Mark McGwire
#92. In 1961, when Maris broke Babe Ruth's record, he wasn't intentionally walked once. Mickey batted after Roger, and nobody was going to put a man on base with Mantle coming up to the plate.
Mel Allen
#93. Now they talk on the radio about the record set by (Babe) Ruth, and (Joe) DiMaggio and Henry Aaron. But they rarely mention mine. Do you know what I have to show for the sixty-one home runs? Nothing, exactly nothing.
Roger Maris
#94. I don't know why Roger (Maris) isn't in the hall of fame. To me, he was as good as there ever was.
Mickey Mantle
#95. Healthcare is becoming part of information technology.
Bill Maris
#96. There are a lot of billionaires in Silicon Valley, but in the end, we are all heading to the same place. If given the choice between making a lot of money or finding a way to make people live longer, what do you choose?
Bill Maris
#97. I'm not bothered when other VCs start hiring great designers or start recruiting. That's the direction I'd like it to go.
Bill Maris
#98. To create exponential growth in health care, we need to put tremendous resources and focus behind the best human minds working in this field.
Bill Maris
#99. We're looking for people who are working on things that seem out of reach, uncomfortably difficult.
Bill Maris
#100. You hit home runs not by chance but by preparation.
Roger Maris
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