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John Zimmer Quotes

When I left my job at Lehman Brothers to start a company, my best friend's mother said, 'How could you leave a sure thing like Lehman to do a silly carpool startup?' That was three months before Lehman went bankrupt.

John Zimmer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: March 14, 1984

Topics

Friend Mother Best Job Start You

I got an agent when I was 16 up in Vancouver, Canada.

Jessica Lowndes

Canada Up Got Vancouver Agent

I design music; I don't produce it.

Travis Scott

Music Design Produce

Every show is different. The public has always been nice to me. I'm fortunate that way.

Tony Bennett

Me Nice Way Always Fortunate Been

I'm on my boat, training, rehearsing; I spend all my energy on the job that's coming up, and I found that's the way that works for me. The more energy you have on set, the better you'll be; it's all about being alive in that moment and listening.

Rory McCann

Moment Job Training Me Energy Boat

Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney.

Mickey Spillane

History Smoke Down Want Names Out

We buy and sell goods. We buy low and sell higher - that's what we all do to make a profit. But I consider a merchant someone who has a certain intuition and instinct, and - very important - knows how to run a business, knows the numbers.

Mickey Drexler

Business Someone Profit Numbers Run

I was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and from an early age was interested in technology and engineering.

Mike Krieger

Technology Age Engineering Early

The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.

Jules Renard

Great Men Long Reward Dead Sure

I didn't go to film school so my learning was done out in public and showed up on the screen.

Jonathan Demme

Learning School Go Done Out Up

We sometimes take our security for granted.

Chris Collins

Security Sometimes Take Our Granted

A young man, be his merit what it will, can never raise himself; but must, like the ivy round the oak, twine himself round some man of great power and interest.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Power Great Man Young Young Man Oak

I grew up in India. From my childhood, I remember the great reverence that people held for our national hero, Mahatma Gandhi. He galvanized millions to march as one, disarmed the empire that had ruled his country for nearly a century, and enabled India to become a free and independent nation.

Punit Renjen

Great Hero Childhood People Free