Starting A New Venture Quotes

#1. When I started Net-a-Porter, I knew nothing. And I was pregnant. Starting a new venture and being pregnant for the first time are pretty similar in many ways. If you knew what was going to happen to you, you wouldn't venture down that road.

Natalie Massenet

#2. I did not feel a bit sorry for my father. He seemed to me to be the victim of his own foolish sentimentality. The

H.G.Wells

#3. Lawns are a form of television

Michael Pollan

#4. The notion of the large, massive public university that can exist in isolated splendor is dead.

Gordon Gee

#5. Joe, my guardian and a man of few words, once said about Lizzie, "That girl could talk the ears off a cornfield.

Sharon Creech

#6. If you live your life only following the path you think is approved or acceptable, or the one you think is expected of you, you'll be making a huge mistake. Not a single successful person ... has ever done great things because they played it safe. You've got to be true to yourself.

Carson Kressley

#7. I want POM Wonderful to be within arm's reach of everyone who wants it. That is the biggest service I can do.

Lynda Resnick

#8. Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the worst of the creators

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#9. No matter who you meet in life, you take something from them, positive or negative.

Gary Allan

#10. You invited me here to slay dragons, did you not? Well. That's what I'm trying to do.

Rick Yancey

#11. Juan Williams is a very sharp guy.

Henry Rollins

#12. The most exquisite words and finest strokes of an author are those which very often appear the most doubtful and exceptionable to a man who wants a relish for polite learning; and they are those which a sour undistinguishing critic generally attacks with the greatest violence.

Joseph Addison

#13. Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I do best.

Ira Glass

#14. I prefer being as far from the centre of celebrity as possible.

Rachel Weisz

#15. That's the beauty of starting lines: Until you begin a new venture, you never know what awaits you.

Amby Burfoot

#16. The bogus religiosity which now surrounds original works of art, and which is ultimately dependent upon their market value, has become the substitute for what paintings lost when the camera made them reproducible.

John Berger

#17. You've got to be an observer. And you've got to take time to listen to people, talk, to watch what they do.

Jonathan Winters