Mike Markkula Quotes

#1. In order to do a good job of those things that we decide to do, we must eliminate all of the unimportant opportunities.

Mike Markkula

#2. I used to be a businessman and I enjoyed what I did and I thought that it was socially useful. I don't have anything against business or private enterprise or capitalism per se, but I think that it is time to rethink the regulation of capitalism.

Charles Ferguson

#3. Never start a company with the goal of getting rich. Your goal should be making something you believe in and making a company that will last.

Mike Markkula

#4. I find that on most films it's very difficult to have a backlit movie in an exterior.

Robert Richardson

#5. Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.

Andrew Jackson

#6. Virtue has many preachers, but few martyrs.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

#7. Among people lacking self-restraint, those apt to be impulsive40 are better than those who are in possession of an argument [logos] but do not abide by it. For

Aristotle.

#8. Gastronomy has to catch up to the evolution in technology.

Homaro Cantu

#9. Relationship is a pervading and changing mystery ... brutal or lovely, the mystery waits for people wherever they go, whatever extreme they run to.

Eudora Welty

#10. Man is at the nadir of his stregth when the Earth, the seas, the mountains are not in him, for without them his soul is unsourced, and he has no images by which to abide.

Edward Dahlberg

#11. Philosophy and Religion-what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?

William Golding

#12. 'Peace Mom' is my most heartfelt, but I am most proud of 'Myth America' because I nailed the problem and gave the solutions long before the Occupy Movement. I think it's a great organic class analysis.

Cindy Sheehan

#13. The earth is the general and equal possession of all humanity and therefore cannot be the property of individuals.

Leo Tolstoy

#14. All my friends were off on gap years, so going to New York alone, at the age of 18, was kind of my flying the nest. It was an amazing experience.

Bel Powley

#15. Every adult needs a child to teach; it's the way adults learn.

Frank A. Clark

#16. How can I have hung round you for five years and not think girls are clever?

J.K. Rowling