Steven Rattner Quotes

Picking winners among the many young companies seeking money is a tough business, even for the most sophisticated investors. Indeed, most professionally run venture funds lose money. For individuals, it's pure folly. Buy a lottery ticket instead. Your chance of winning is likely to be higher.

Steven Rattner

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My grandfather died under house arrest.

Joe Garcia

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Geoff Leonard knows more about me than I know myself.

John Barry

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When my daughter was young, she thought all electronic signs were mine.

Jenny Holzer

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The image of entrepreneurship as the province of the unprivileged and un-entitled - the Horatio Alger, rags to riches myth - flies in the face of reality.

Andrew Yang

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Not very many people can draw who are illustrators today.

John Kricfalusi

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Limits should be placed on how big big banks can become.

Robert Reich

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I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before.

Robert Mapplethorpe

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There's an art to asking questions. Briefings are valuable but normally communicate primarily what the subordinate leader wants you to know, and often the picture they provide is incomplete.

Stanley A. McChrystal

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So often, science fiction helps to get young people interested in science. That's why I don't mind talking about science fiction. It has a real role to play: to seize the imagination.

Michio Kaku

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It seems entirely possible to me that horrible things can be going on without us becoming horrible people.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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I have a lot of help to do chores so I can be with my family, and I never have any help over the weekends.

Diane Greene

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Business is other people's money.

Delphine de Girardin

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