Glenn Kelman Quotes

The most important question venture capitalists ask is what prevents your company from growing faster.

Glenn Kelman

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GrowingImportantQuestionCompany

I am no Poet here; my pen's the spout where the rain water of my eyes run out.

John Cleveland

EyesRainWaterI AmPenRun

There are roles that are terrifying because they're large or you may feel that they're out of your line, but I'm never terrified once the actual work begins. Once you begin rehearsal, then it's small building blocks. It's solving little problems one at a time.

Michael Emerson

WorkTimeBuildingSmallProblems

Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?

Stephen Hawking

FireUniverseRulesPossibleTheory

If you are a writer you're at home, which means you're out of touch. You have to make excuses to get out there and look at how the world is changing.

Roddy Doyle

HomeWorldExcusesYouLookTouch

As CEO of Aetna, I was a buyer of portfolio companies rather than a participant in the value creation process. From the end of the assembly line, what happened in manufacturing wasn't visible to me.

Ron Williams

ValueMeProcessEndCreationLine

My perfect beach town isn't a fancy resort or glitzy planned community. It's a place with a hometown grocery that has decent meat, seafood, and a deli; a couple of ice cream shops; and a handful of good restaurants - where the island-wide dress code is 'no shoes, no shirt, no problem.'

Mary Kay Andrews

GoodCommunityShoesBeachDress

What a day-to-day affair life is.

Jules Laforgue

LifeAffairDay-To-Day

Why tell a story that people have seen 900 times? That's not interesting artistically.

Dede Gardner

PeopleStoryInterestingWhyTell

What's love if not the thing you'll do anything and everything to get back once lost? What's hate if not the thing you'll do anything and everything to get rid of once found?

Brian Celio

LoveHateYouBackLostEverything

It is one of the ironies of my life and in many lives that whenever you are the happiest, all of this stuff from the past will come pushing up and demand to be noticed.

Sylvia Fraser

LifePastMy LifeYouWillUp

I'm thankful for Sarah Palin's vice presidential bid, which taught us that Alaska is not in a box off the coast of California.

Paula Poundstone

ThankfulAlaskaCaliforniaBoxVice

As it happens, Chicago is the nation's leader in municipal privatization efforts. That's right: The city that conservatives portray as the citadel of the power-grabbing, government-growing left has been selling itself off in pieces for years. It signed a 99-year lease for the Chicago Skyway, a toll road in the city's South Side, back in 2005.

Thomas Frank

LeaderCityRoadBackSellingRight

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