Fred Wilson Quotes

The best talent in the venture industry doesn't work in large companies and won't work in large companies.

Fred Wilson

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WorkBestTalentIndustryVenture

People assume NFL cheerleaders are within some vague sniffing distance of the good life, but a Ben-Gal is paid seventy-five bucks per game. That is correct: seventy-five bucks for each of ten home games. The grand cash total per season does not keep most of them flush in hair spray, let alone gas money to and from practice.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

LifeGoodHomeAloneMoneyPractice

Luckily for me, my father had impeccable taste. No contemporary collector was he. His treasure trove of comics included gems such as 'Little Lulu,' 'Frontline Combat' and 'Classics Illustrated.' But the works that stood head and shoulders above the rest were Carl Barks's 'Donald Duck' and 'Uncle Scrooge' comics from the 1940s through the 1960s.

Jeff Kinney

FatherMeRestDuckUncleTreasure

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

Tom Peters

LeadershipOpportunityWindowDown

The acquisition of Symphony Teleca... gives us immediate scale in software services. With the addition of cloud, mobility, and analytics competencies, we will accelerate solutions for the connected car and for a broader set of industries and markets.

Dinesh Paliwal

CarCloudConnectedWillSoftware

I used to think that what scared me was the idea of being abandoned until someone said to me, 'Only children can be abandoned. Adults can't be abandoned because we have a choice. Children don't have a choice.'

Demi Moore

ChildrenMeThinkSomeoneChoice

Every film teaches you something; every experience on every film set with every co-star teaches you something. You learn something new. I think the challenge is to keep working harder and doing better.

Deepika Padukone

ChallengeExperienceThinkBetter

I love characters who are clever and smart, and you have to run to catch up with. I think there's something very appealing and rather heroic in that.

David Tennant

LoveSmartThinkYouRunClever

Every chef I know, their cholesterol is through the roof. And mine's not so great.

Anthony Bourdain

GreatChefKnowRoofThroughMine

Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.

Arthur Miller

LifeGameFindMostPastimeMinor

I start each book when it's ready and never before.

Alice Walker

StartBookReadyNeverBeforeEach

I am looking forward to learning at the knee of Paul Ryan. He doesn't strike me as a politician. He strikes me as an economist.

Todd Rokita

LearningI AmMeLooking ForwardHe

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

Richard M. Nixon

PoliticsYouSilverFinishingSecond

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