Adena Friedman Quotes

It's hard not to take it personally when being wait-listed, passed over for a promotion, or losing a client to a competitor. But while feeling aggrieved may be an understandable reaction, it's not productive - it's not a good use of the experience.

Adena Friedman

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When we acquired Secureworks, if we had taken it and made all the salespeople into Dell salespeople, we would have totally destroyed Secureworks. Instead, it remained Secureworks but with capital from Dell and access to Dell's customers. And now, it's a great business.

Michael Dell

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Health care missed the PC and Internet revolutions, but it can't afford to miss the cloud and mobile revolution.

John Sculley

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I'm hunting one thing and one thing only, and that's the Super Bowl.

DeAngelo Williams

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While at Parsons, I interned at Marc Jacobs, which was great. When I graduated, I went to work at J. Crew; that was also really great.

Chris Benz

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I'm a big fan of live music and going to gigs, but I'll leave it to the professionals.

Colin Morgan

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Pace judgement is everything in the hour record. If you can ride 16.1 or 16.2-second laps constantly for 221 laps, and not go 15.9s or 16.4s, it's keeping it on the line every lap, lap after lap.

Bradley Wiggins

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I never, ever talk about writing to anyone at all.

Bobbie Ann Mason

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The world of entertainment is, like the world of fashion, becoming increasingly populated by those who don't want to do things the same old boring way.

Anna Wintour

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Let us hold our discussion together in our own persons, making trial of the truth and of ourselves.

Protagoras

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Certain athletes show themselves as marketable, and the UFC gets behind them; they help push them. I'm a husband, a father of four, a gym owner, an actor, an analyst, a stuntman, a Christian - every avenue you can take it, I have those layers.

Tyron Woodley

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Facebook is not a company of grass-roots tech enthusiasts. Facebook is not a game tech company. Facebook has a history of caring about building user numbers, and nothing but building user numbers.

Markus Persson

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The Vikings themselves are fascinating creatures. They're human beings, of course, but their ethos are so different from ours. The fact that they live as warriors - their willingness to die for the sake of what they believe in - is quite shocking to us, and it's fascinating to see.

Linus Roache

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