Tobias Lutke Quotes

I find the strongest predictor of people who do well at Shopify is whether they see opportunity as something to compete for, or do they see opportunity as essentially everywhere and unlimited? It's a rough proxy for pessimism and optimism.

Tobias Lutke

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OpportunityOptimismPeopleFindSee

Virtue is an inner strength. It expands your nature.

John Bradshaw

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I don't know how films get made, and I think I'll leave it to other people.

John Tiffany

PeopleThinkKnowLeaveGetMade

People tend to overestimate the short-term impact of technological change. In the short-term, it's not going to make that much of a difference.

Stewart Butterfield

ChangePeopleImpactDifferenceMuch

I love giving people advice on what to do with their books, but I don't really know how a Kindle Single gets covered.

Sloane Crosley

LovePeopleAdviceGivingKnowHow

The work of artists is to find what's humanly possible - possibility's furthest reaches.

Tony Kushner

WorkFindPossibleArtistsFurthest

The events of the day's march are now becoming so dreary and dispiriting that one longs to forget them when we camp; it is an effort even to record them in a diary.

Robert Falcon Scott

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It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

Michelangelo

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Spaghetti... I can't eat spaghetti, there's too many of them. No matter how hungry I am, 1,000 of something is too many. I'll have 1,000 pieces of noodles.

Mitch Hedberg

I AmMatterEatHungryNoodlesHow

Often, the disconnect between the marketing hype around a new product and what the product actually does is astounding.

Mitch Kapor

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One in 150 kids is autistic these days. The autism spectrum is growing.

Luke Ford

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When I really have it together, I think I successfully pull off looking like the exact middle point between Macklemore and Ron Howard, only with a much bigger forehead than either of them.

Chris Gethard

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After college, I went to Alley Theatre in Houston to work in their apprentice actor program. I thought I was gonna get discovered. It didn't happen. I moved back to Germantown, Tennessee, outside of Memphis, and taught at my old high school.

Chris Parnell

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