Pete Cashmore Quotes

#1. I don't have any personal challenges about throwing away the past. If you're not changing, you're giving others a chance to catch up.

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#2. Those who insert themselves into as many channels as possible look set to capture the most value. They'll be the richest, the most successful, the most connected, capable and influential among us. We're all publishers now, and the more we publish, the more valuable connections we'll make.

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#3. My shoes are special shoes for discerning feet.

Manolo Blahnik

#4. Execution really shapes whether your company takes off or not.

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#5. You need space to try things and create. It takes a long time to recalibrate if you let people pull at you all the time. A lot of stress comes from reacting to stuff. You have to keep a certain guard [up], if you're a creative person.

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#6. You just want to be judged against everyone fairly.

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#7. Chase asks her what time the appointment is booked for. Rachel says, "It's at 11:30 or midnight. He's supposed to call to confirm." She checks her cell. "But I want to be there early." she says.
"Why?"
"Just to be on the safe side."
"There isn't one, Rachel.

Joe McGinniss Jr.

#8. To the Insane: I owe them everything.

J.G. Ballard

#9. I don't have a TV or watch movies. I don't like to be broadcast to, I want to participate.

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#10. Now, two things happen. One is, people know people, whether that's on Facebook or Twitter. They feel closer to the event. Secondly, people see other people doing something about it.

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#11. Creating the future is incredibly exciting. When you talk about ideas and creativity, it's really about having that vision in your mind of how the world could be better, of how it could be a brighter place.

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#12. That's really been my passion: to communicate to a broad audience why the technology matters for you.

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#13. Excellence is a choice, and you must make that choice over and over again until "doing your best" is all you know.

Randy Anderson

#14. I kept my age quiet for a good few years. I didn't see it as a positive. I worked remotely, so I just didn't tell people.

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#15. You have a responsibility when you have a large community.

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#16. This gentleman evidently belonged to the category of those people who wish the Government to interfere in everything, even in their daily quarrels with their wives.

Nikolai Gogol

#17. My dad is good at sticking with stuff and he has a strong work ethic, which is imbued in me. Growing up, he would constantly ask what I was doing and was I achieving anything.

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#18. All civil rulers, as such, are the ordinance and ministers of God; and they are all, by the nature of their office, and in their respective spheres and stations, bound to consult the public welfare.

Jonathan Mayhew

#19. We are really competing against ourselves, we have no control over how other people perform.

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#20. Juarez is reported to be the most dangerous city in America.

Rick Perry

#21. If it doesn't come through the Internet, it's not really compelling to me.

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#22. I find it best to dive right in and learn the hard way.

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#23. Always, in your career and personal life, be evolving with technology.

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#24. I'm a Christian, and I'm not judgmental towards anyone. I think that's really important.

Samuel Larsen

#25. The moral man does something,
and when no one responds
he rolls up his sleeves and uses force.

Lao-Tzu

#26. What I'm interested in are tools that can assist people to do the things they're really good at.

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#27. The talent that has to be learned is finding out what someone's passion is and setting them up to realize that. You don't get the best work from people if you're guiding them versus them guiding themselves.

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#28. We are all more connected than ever. That connectivity builds tolerance.

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#29. We're living at a time when attention is the new currency. Those who insert themselves into as many channels as possible look set to capture the most value.

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#30. The aura of soccer is very different from other sports.

Dave Checketts

#31. Privacy is dead, and social media holds the smoking gun.

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#32. We have this revolution that's happening in our lifetime. The Information Revolution is changing absolutely every industry and every part of life and society and behavior.

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#33. He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater that does not marry a fool; what is wit in a wife good for, but to make a man a cuckold?

William Wycherley

#34. The more people you know from different backgrounds, the more tolerant you feel of different ways of living, and the closer you feel to the issues that those people have.

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#35. I think you're going to see tech bringing efficiencies to businesses that aren't pure tech.

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#36. Critics can neither build nor explore. All they do, really, is say yes or no - and complicate it.

Mark Helprin

#37. Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.

Oswald Spengler

#38. I'm very much a creative person, but you've got to do the follow-through. A lot of people start out with an exciting thing and they want to take over the world, but really the people who do take over the world have a good plan of how to get there and the steps along the way.

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