Nastiest Pitches Quotes

#1. My having HIV has no bearing on my business.

Magic Johnson

#2. Again I think my gift is bringing hope to everybody, and I don't want someone to look at me and say, "I would listen to him, I like what he's saying, but he's this or that politically and that turns me off."

Joel Osteen

#3. But my favorite work is always my next piece.

Joey Skaggs

#4. Look what scares you in the face and try to understand it. Empathy is revolutionary.

Jane Fonda

#5. I tried to blink back the tears that just kept coming. Eventually, I gave up and let my sight be obscured.

Embee

#6. I'm not a number. Dammit, I'm a man.

Bob Seger

#7. The universe is not short on wake-up calls. We're just quick to hit the snooze button.

Brene Brown

#8. Not for models. SuicideGirls is a mystery to me because I thought only women ran the site.

Richard Kern

#9. What does it matter, she thought, if businesses are left unattended, if people are not always as we want them to be; we need the time just to be human, to enjoy something like this: a boy chasing ants, a dry land drinking at last, birds in the the sky, a rainbow.

Alexander McCall Smith

#10. Adversity is prosperity to those who possess a great attitude.

John C. Maxwell

#11. The biggest problem is startups in search of a problem. Chase what you're passionate about; you'll probably already have knowledge in the space.

Mike Krieger

#12. If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning.

Carl Rogers

#13. ADVENTURE CAPITALISTS

William Gibson

#14. Your Soviet players are cheating, losing the games on purpose to my rival, Botvinnik, in order to increase his points on the score. - (to Stalin in Moscow 1936 where he finished in 1st place, 1 point ahead of Botvinnik)

Jose Raul Capablanca