Mary Meeker Quotes

#1. I grew up believing that one person could make a difference. In Indiana, you saw that with basketball. The small town could beat the big town, like in the movie 'Hoosiers.' That is one of the things that attracts me to entrepreneurs.

Mary Meeker

#2. I would, if I could, always feed to music. The singularly graceless action of thus filling one's body with roots and dead animals and powdered grain is given some significance then. One can perform as a ritual what one is shamed to do as a utilitarian action ...

Winifred Holtby

#3. The idea of the U.S. as a corporation is more than a thought experiment. It's a way to reposition our approach to long-term problems. What would U.S.A. Inc. be worth? Who would want to buy its shares?

Mary Meeker

#4. Biggie came at a time just like Hitler did with the Germans.

Tupac Shakur

#5. A captivating moment was when I realized that people, including myself, were not saying, 'I just bought an item on eBay.' They were saying, 'I just won an item on eBay.' It was the thrill of the hunt. I bought a car on eBay.

Mary Meeker

#6. You could take the Internet enthusiasm that was happening in 1999 and 2000 here in the U.S., and in China it was three-to-five times more ebullient.

Mary Meeker

#7. The internet is the most underutilized advertising medium that's out there.

Mary Meeker

#8. I believe that I have created a lot of cognitive dissonance in the minds of people who are comfortable with stereotypes.

Hillary Clinton

#9. I've always wanted to invest. That's why I started working on Wall Street in the first place, back in 1986 when I went through the Salomon Brothers training program.

Mary Meeker

#10. One of the greatest investments of our lifetime has been New York City real estate, and investors made the highest returns when they bought stuff during the 1970s and 1980s when people were getting mugged. The lesson is that you make the most money when you buy stuff that's out of consensus.

Mary Meeker

#11. I love data. I think it's very important to get it right, and I think it's good to question it.

Mary Meeker

#12. I've made my best personal investments when I've been a user of the product. Like Apple. The epiphany for me came when I purchased my fifth iPod and I hadn't unwrapped my fourth. It was still in the plastic case.

Mary Meeker

#13. Then, we all laughed because we knew we could get in trouble for swearing, but the strength of our numbers would prevent any retribution.

Stephen Chbosky

#14. I was wandering around as usual, in my unpleasantly populated sub-conscious ...

Dodie Smith

#15. I see a funny guy who's imperfect, but has a great heart and no vanity when it comes to what he'll do to get a laugh. I see a guy who loves his art and loves his family, and who is willing to live and die for both.

Marlon Wayans

#16. Internet TV is replacing linear TV.

Mary Meeker

#17. There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.

B.B. King

#18. I grew up in a small town in northeastern Indiana. I had an all-American childhood. And I grew up as an optimist.

Mary Meeker

#19. Concepts create idols; only wonder comprehends anything. People kill one another over idols. Wonder makes us fall to our knees.

Gregory Of Nyssa

#20. When, within our souls and psyches we are made aware of a safe but insistent drum beat, repeated like butterfly wings in motion, we sense the message ... that our inner self has begun its search for freedom.

Mary Meeker

#21. We hate Slowdive more than we hate Hitler.

Richey Edwards

#22. Before anything else, I need your trust. Your absolute trust in me--and yourself. You have to know you are the only woman I will ever want or need. You have to know that it is in you to meet my every desire, just as I will meet yours.

Christine Feehan