Thomas Friedman Quotes

When I was growing up, my parents told me, 'Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving.' I tell my daughters, 'Finish your homework. People in India and China are starving for your job.'

Thomas Friedman

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JobTeenParentsPeopleGrowing Up

When I started my last business, I didn't receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can't handle that pressure.

Robert Kiyosaki

BusinessPressurePersonPaycheck

The difference between Los Angeles and yogurt is that yogurt comes with less fruit.

Rush Limbaugh

FruitLos AngelesDifferenceYogurt

I think co-working spaces, incubators, and accelerators outside of the Bay Area do a lot to foster a local startup scene - which is really important for early founders, but I also think that exposure to the Bay Area is extremely valuable for startups.

Michael Seibel

ThinkEarlyImportantOutsideBay

Chance plays a powerful role in every life - our brains and personalities are just chemical soup, after all; a few drops here or there matter enormously - but consequences often become more serious as income levels go down.

Mohsin Hamid

LifeSoupChancePowerfulDownGo

To me, I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, and my identity is of a suburban Chicago person. It's not like, 'Oh, I'm Indian.' I'm not. I'm American.

Jay Chandrasekhar

IdentityMeAmericanPersonChicago

My father ran a saloon in Kenosha, Wis., which is just about as rough a living as I can think of. It was brutal; it scared the hell out of me. I was so petrified all the while I was a child, I didn't know what I was doing half the time.

Don Ameche

FatherTimeChildMeThinkHell

Actors never retire, they just get less and less work.

Desmond Llewelyn

WorkNeverRetireGetJustLess

Jimmy Fallon is one of the funniest son of a guns I've ever seen.

Christian Kane

SonGunsSeenFunniestEverJimmy

Once you catch that fever of wrestling, you really can't get it out.

Bobby Lashley

YouWrestlingOutCatchFeverGet

I'm a big outdoorsman... I'm a big hunter. Avid fisherman. Hiker. Climber. Scuba diver. Skier. Love the outdoors.

Bruce Rauner

LoveOutdoorsHunterBigAvidScuba

I have found life an enjoyable, enchanting, active, and sometime terrifying experience, and I've enjoyed it completely. A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other.

Sean O'Casey

LifeExperienceSongActiveAlways

Of course, I won't be abandoning photography, because it is my life.

Sebastiao Salgado

LifeMy LifePhotographyBecause

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