Rosensweig Quotes

#1. Life is a successive symphony of losses.

Isaac Asimov

#2. Any path you take, if you commit with passion, you can be successful. By going to business school, certain opportunities may open up to you sooner. But it's who you are and how you take advantage of your opportunities that matter.

Dan Rosensweig

#3. Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Albert Einstein

#4. I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.

Dan Rosensweig

#5. Guitar Hero has been so successful that a lot of people were questioning how it was possible to innovate on the most successful franchise of its kind.

Dan Rosensweig

#6. I wish I had more control, more like Edgar Rice Burroughs had, but I'm a realist, too. I work in television. I don't know that I would want to spend the rest of my life controlling my characters.

Gene Roddenberry

#7. Textbook rental is a great concept. It is just a great business model.

Dan Rosensweig

#8. I was brought up with considerable discipline, and I was taught it wasn't proper to display certain very private emotions in public.

Carolina Herrera

#9. The good parts about being a public company are increased discipline, increased execution and increased transparency to make sure that you are really building a company for a hundred years.

Dan Rosensweig

#10. One of the blessings I've had, really, for my entire career, is working with founders of companies, whether it was Bill Ziff at Ziff Davis or with Jerry Yang and David Filo at Yahoo.

Dan Rosensweig

#11. When you are in a growth company, you have to really open people's eyes to the bigger possibilities so they think differently. Once they understand how to define success and what their role is in success, they make better decisions, and you can push decision-making down.

Dan Rosensweig

#12. If you want to build lifelong, loyal friendships, if you want to build trust, learn to protect your family members and friends even when they make mistakes.

Joel Osteen

#13. When I'm in town on Sundays, I sometimes go down to the Central Bar in the East Village to watch English football. But my natural inclination now is to get in the car with my wife and kids and get out of town.

Joe Scarborough

#14. In Silicon Valley, if you spend a lot of time thinking about the obstacles, you'll talk yourself out of everything, because the more you look at it, the less logical something sounds, since no one has done it yet.

Dan Rosensweig

#15. I like being surrounded by people who have very little fear and very little respect for the past - not in a negative way, but in a positive way. They appreciate everything that's been done, but they constantly look for how to do it better.

Dan Rosensweig

#16. The history of Guitar Hero is pretty spectacular. Really, I don't know of another franchise that has captured the imagination of the world so quickly and so powerfully and so positively in such a short period of time.

Dan Rosensweig

#17. When you're in college, you really don't know where you're going to end up, but you know who you want to be along that journey.

Dan Rosensweig

#18. ( ... ) the easiest to conquer were also more worthy of it, because women have better intuition than men for the love affinity.

Frank Harris

#19. For there is no true failure in life, child. There is only giving up one day before we would have achieved success.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#20. I've been extremely fortunate in my life. So I actually believe that I'm the living embodiment of living the American dream.

Dan Rosensweig

#21. I am deeply convinced that God is present both in the lives of every person and also in the lives of entire nations.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#22. The Republic is open and tolerant but also knows how and when to be firm and make its values respected.

Jean-Pierre Raffarin

#23. I had immigrant grandparents who came to this country and came for religious freedom and loved it, never made any money, Bronx, Brooklyn, but loved America. And they told me every day it's the greatest country in the world.

Dan Rosensweig

#24. I know what kind of crazy I am. But, this isn't that kind of crazy.

Will Graham

#25. What Guitar Hero has done is to turn music inside out. Whereas the iPod made music very personal, very singular - you put your ear-buds in and you listen to it - Guitar Hero turned it around and made it very social. So it is fun to play. It's fun to play against people.

Dan Rosensweig

#26. I think whenever you come in, whenever you try to evolve a company, people will get nervous. But, if you articulate a clear vision, a clear mission to help them understand their roles in it and ask them to buy into the system, everyone will band together to make it happen.

Dan Rosensweig

#27. It wouldn't be the worst thing in the world if we didn't have a salary cap.

Jerry Jones

#28. Facebook is the social graph with the organizing principle around your friends and your social life. LinkedIn is the professional graph, organized around you, your job, your industry, your title and your function. At Chegg, we are building a student graph centered around you, as a student.

Dan Rosensweig

#29. People care about our digital revenue, not our print revenue.

Dan Rosensweig

#30. In the judgment of the most competent living mathematicians, Fraulein Noether was the most significant mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.

Albert Einstein

#31. The parents always insisted on telling their child that their secret friends didn't exist - perhaps because they had forgotten that they too had spoken to their angel at one time. Or, who knows, perhaps they thought they lived in a world where there was no longer any place for angels.

Paulo Coelho

#32. The rocks are not so close akin to us as the soil; they are one more remove from us; but they lie back of all, and are the final source of all ... Time, geologic time, looks out at us from the rocks as from no other objects in the landscape.

John Burroughs