Roelof Quotes

#1. If you are in Mountain View, you don't resonate with the needs of urban dwellers. Tumblr couldn't have emerged in Sunnyvale.

Roelof Botha

#2. In my practice as a psychiatrist, I have found that helping people to develop personal goals has proved to be the most effective way to help them cope with problems.

Ari Kiev

#3. I have some Russian friends. But probably only 10 percent. I don't hang out usually in the big Russian communities in Brooklyn and New Jersey.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

#4. I think of myself as just another consumer.

Roelof Botha

#5. And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.

Anonymous

#6. All dwarfs have beards and wear up to twelve layers of clothing. Gender is more or less optional.

Terry Pratchett

#7. Not everybody wants to get out and see the world. Nothing wrong with that. Sometimes you just want to figure out how to fit yourself into the world you already know.

John Darnielle

#8. The whole path of American music has been so much about the recognition of stylistic diversity, and the recognition of the importance of music which was from one of the vernacular traditions.

Michael Tilson Thomas

#9. You have to put yourself in a position to be lucky.

Roelof Botha

#10. Founders should think of their company as a product and build it and shape it with the same passion and care.

Roelof Botha

#11. I am sure innovation will blossom around the world, given that the Internet and mobile platforms enable innovators anywhere in the world to reach a global market with ease.

Roelof Botha

#12. Today's Oak tree are tomorrows Nut that stood his ground.

Roelof Beukes

#13. I try getting in front of as many opportunities as possible, but in the late '90s, I had no idea that I'd end up being CFO of a technology company. I'd no idea what venture capital was.

Roelof Botha

#14. Money was invented for a reason. We've seen people try to use beans, etc. and it doesn't work.

Roelof Botha

#15. At Sequoia, we have opened offices in China and India, and we have made a handful of investments in Latin America/Brazil.

Roelof Botha

#16. It's important to choose initial investors who are not twitchy and rushing for an exit. Wall Street's quarter-by-quarter lens may make the CEO make sub-optimal long-term decisions.

Roelof Botha

#17. Haven't I heard of men more dried up than he is, being brought all the way from Egypt in cases covered with pictures?" "You idiot! - those were mummies; they had been dead for ages.

Jules Verne

#18. If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.

Nicolas Chamfort

#19. Except from 2002 to 2010, we never went three years without buying a bank.

Gerald J. Ford

#20. You your own best thing."
-Paul D.

Toni Morrison

#21. Israel has incredible entrepreneurial spirit and a deep bench of technology talent.

Roelof Botha

#22. You don't want to be the site that people should use. You want to be the site they can't stop using.

Roelof Botha

#23. The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of Christian, but the fact that I am a Christian makes me a different kind of woman.

Elisabeth Elliot