Moskovitz Quotes

#1. For most people, their wealth accrues slowly, and at any given point they say, 'Okay, I should kick up my standard of living because now I've earned slightly more wealth.' I went from the dorm room to having a billion dollars.

Dustin Moskovitz

#2. Facebook was a very big mission; it really knocked it out of the universe. It's pretty hard to focus on a small idea after that. You really have to be working on something that you believe will be of similar impact.

Dustin Moskovitz

#3. There are a lot of people building small ideas now. There's an idealization of being an entrepreneur, but the most important thing is to have a really great idea.

Dustin Moskovitz

#4. I have a vision of a Galaxy overrun by mankind from Core to rim. Of four hundred billion stars each enslaved to the rhythm of Earth's day, Earth's year. I have a vision of a trillion planets pulsing to the beat of a human heart.

Stephen Baxter

#5. I need a hundred dollars and some suction

Dave Mustaine

#6. If power doesn't mean that you have the opportunity to work with the people that you love , then you haven't really got any.

Frank Sinatra

#7. I'm not really sure where it comes from, but every time I meet someone who says 'I really want to be an entrepreneur' but has no idea what they want to do, I really just think: 'This person is totally aimless.'

Dustin Moskovitz

#8. When we founded Facebook, we put a lot of hours into it and worked hard every day. 'The Social Network' painted this picture that we were partying all the time, when really we only attended 2 or 3 parties during Facebook's first year.

Dustin Moskovitz

#9. I'm not trying to be evasive, but when I say yes and no, I say 'yes' because there are narrow-minded people that won't look past the logo and 'no' because 'American Idol' put me in front of millions of people and I would not have a career without 'Idol.'

Bo Bice

#10. As with Google, Facebook was a place that just concentrated a lot of top talent. It's just sort of natural that those people would go on and continue to be successful.

Dustin Moskovitz

#11. Facebook was founded on February 4th, 2004, and around February 5th, we were feeling pretty confident it would be bigger. We would see Facebook on every single laptop in class. We knew there was a bigger story here.

Dustin Moskovitz

#12. Success is very much the intersection of luck and hard work.

Dustin Moskovitz

#13. You reveal me. Then you heal me Of all the scars and strife. And when my life was spinning downward, You caught me. I'd forgotten how to smile, but You re-taught me.

Christine Feehan

#14. Once a few Facebook employees put together a promising idea and start a company, that's very exciting to people. I happen to think being a Facebook employee is really correlated with good ideas.

Dustin Moskovitz

#15. I used to be really anxious about money. I got that from my parents. I still am, but for entirely different reasons.

Dustin Moskovitz

#16. Evil's when you push your agenda over someone else's. When you assert your beliefs over somebody's contrary beliefs. That's evil.

David Kitson

#17. The Bhagavad-Gita tells us we have a right only to our labor, not to the fruits of our labor. All the warrior can give is his life; all the athlete can do is leave everything on the field.

Steven Pressfield

#18. If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all the sweet human things of life well lost if only he may attain something, do some good, great work - then I was never an artist.

Ellen Terry

#19. One of the purposes of life, and selfishly what makes people happy, is building things that are impactful.

Dustin Moskovitz

#20. It was a precondition to leaving Facebook that I wasn't going to start something that was just about chasing money.

Dustin Moskovitz

#21. Truth, which is important to a scholar, has got to be concrete. And there is nothing more concrete than dealing with babies, burps and bottles, frogs and mud.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

#22. Once the kids are in school, it's amazing what you can do.

Laura Schlessinger

#23. There's a lot of complacency in philanthropy. People figure organizations are trying to do good, and that's enough, even if the results aren't there. But that's wasteful and inefficient. It crowds out better programs.

Dustin Moskovitz

#24. I can't apply $3 billion in capital to the tech industry. It wouldn't work. But in infrastructure, education, I can make a real difference. I can change someone's life, for the better, permanently. If I can improve a kid's education, I can increase their salary later on and for decades.

Dustin Moskovitz

#25. And that destination for which we should strive is one of a successful life not necessarily a life of success.

Andy Andrews

#26. Facebook was founded on February 4, 2004. On February 5, we were feeling pretty confident, even from observing the first few hours of usage. Students used it like crazy. They'd sign up then spend the next 3-4 hours on it. Then we'd go to lecture hall and see it on every computer screen there.

Dustin Moskovitz

#27. The first time I looked at Yammer, I thought I was on Facebook. Work is not a social network, with serendipitous communications and photo collections. Work is about managing tasks and responding to things quickly.

Dustin Moskovitz

#28. Angelina came up, and as soon as we said hello, I thought, This is going to be great. I'm really going to love doing this with her. And I did. And then I was very excited to do the movie after that.

Gerard Butler

#29. Mindfulness has helped me succeed in almost every dimension of my life. By stopping regularly to look inward and become aware of my mental state, I stay connected to the source of my actions and thoughts and can guide them with considerably more intention.

Dustin Moskovitz

#30. The only reason you should be an entrepreneur is because that's the only way the idea will come into the world.

Dustin Moskovitz