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Roelof Botha Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: south african
Birth: September 19, 1973

Topics

Decisions Choose Wall Lens Street

Men and women have different ideas of what constitutes tidiness. I tend to think it's about things being clean, but my mum and girlfriend are more about how things look.

Joe Thomas

Women Men Ideas Think Look Clean

What I believe to be jazz is constructed and improvised music which is in the air right now. But I don't think that's most people's definition of jazz, you know? We don't know what we're talking about, because we don't know the definition.

John Lurie

Music People Believe Think Talking

I never planned any of this, so I don't even think about getting acting jobs. If they call, they call. I sure don't sit on the sidelines waiting to be asked, like a nice little Catholic girl at the dance. I keep myself extremely busy. I've written 91 plays! I love to read. And I always have something to clean.

Robert Michael Morris

Love Girl Myself Dance Waiting Busy

I played sports. I had boyfriends. I loved high school.

Ann Coulter

Sports School High School Loved High

Don't give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you.

John Wooden

Dreams Your Dreams You Will Up Give

I'll always struggle over saying I'm a writer, even if I won the Booker Prize.

Sonya Hartnett

Struggle Saying Always Over Prize

You couldn't enclose people in institutions or hospitals or almshouses in the way the Victorians managed to do. India was too big. Seeing the suffering people was terrible, but I think I was more distraught at the needless cruelty to so many animals.

Spike Milligan

People Suffering Think You Seeing

My problem is that the audience is more fiction-literate than ever. In Shakespeare's day, you probably expected to see a play once or twice in your life; today you experience four or five different kinds of fiction every day. So staying ahead of the audience is impossible.

Steven Moffat

Life Today Experience Day Impossible

I think I always kind of wanted to be a musician but never dared to say it out loud because I never thought it was possible. I wanted to be a teacher, a lawyer, a doctor - I wanted to be a lot of other things growing up.

Sigrid

Teacher Growing Up Doctor Lawyer Say

When I am seriously composing, sometimes a phrase will come into my head, a catch phrase. When I was writing pop songs for a few years, as a career, separate from my folksinging career, I used to write songs for pop singers.

Tom Glazer

I Am Writing Career Sometimes Will

I've been programming computers since elementary school, where they taught us, and I stuck with computer science through high school and college.

Masi Oka

Science School College Computers

The action-movie genre is a very difficult one to get satiated in terms of your acting bits.

Jason Statham

Acting Difficult Get Your Genre