Pete Hoekstra Quotes

Succeeding against an army of strawmen might feel good as a speech, but in reality, the world is filled with extraordinarily difficult challenges and very real consequences as a result of how we face them.

Pete Hoekstra

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GoodChallengesWorldFeel GoodFace

Under stable and incremental conditions, a free-market economy spurs entrepreneurship, ensures efficiency, and generates wealth. Those conditions no longer apply.

Johan Rockstrom

EfficiencyWealthEconomyApply

When you're born into a showbiz family, the deck is stacked against you.

John Darnielle

FamilyYouBornAgainstShowbiz

We hired extremely slowly at the beginning. It took us a year to get to four people. It's hard to hire as a very small company, and we wanted to make sure we found people who cared a lot about what Stripe was doing.

John Collison

BeginningPeopleSmallDoingYear

If I have to do a red carpet, and there is a whole team, then it is an hour with the hair and make-up. But if I am just going out with friends, it is 15 minutes max in front of the mirror. A quick five minutes on my face, and I always wear my hair up.

Meghan Markle

MirrorI AmRedTeamHairFace

Dustin Hoffman was the greatest. He had so much information to give and he mesmerized me. He really feels for actors who are just starting out and remembers his early days like they were yesterday.

Amy Weber

MeInformationEarlyYesterdayOut

One must be convinced to convince, to have enthusiasm to stimulate the others.

Stefan Zweig

LeadershipEnthusiasmOthersConvince

Starbucks was founded around the experience and the environment of their stores. Starbucks was about a space with comfortable chairs, lots of power outlets, tables and desks at which we could work and the option to spend as much time in their stores as we wanted without any pressure to buy. The coffee was incidental.

Simon Sinek

WorkPowerTimeCoffeeExperience

I never like to make plans. It's nice to just hang.

Tom Hiddleston

NicePlansNeverHangJustLike

All of my political career, I've fought for the taxpayers.

Tom Price

PoliticalCareerFoughtTaxpayers

More people saw me in one episode of 'Cheers' than would ever see me in a play.

Roger Rees

PeopleMePlayMoreSeeCheers

The business of writing a novel is a long, meandering road into the self, into the imagination. And it's a road the writer travels alone.

Lisa Unger

BusinessAloneImaginationRoadSelf

I don't listen to much modern composition.

Colin Greenwood

ListenModernCompositionMuch

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