Taavet Hinrikus Quotes

In 2011, when we launched TransferWise, it was our frustration with banks not giving us what we wanted or needed as customers. The motivation was a strong desire to solve a problem and not just fix something that was broken but create a better alternative and a new system for doing things.

Taavet Hinrikus

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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  • Nationality: estonian
  • Birth: 1981

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I've always loved films, always. I studied literature and I went to Columbia in New York and I went to Paris for part of one year and ended up staying there.

Jim Jarmusch

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No one realized that I needed eyeglasses until I was 12 years old. My parents were writers, so I was around the sounds of words and developed a vocabulary with my sense of hearing. I play guitar by ear.

Roger McGuinn

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As consumers are being asked to pay more of the cost of healthcare services, they will increasingly demand more value and will also ask for more transparency and tools to determine the value they are receiving.

Ron Williams

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The reality is even if you are a hands-on Mayor or Governor or chief executive, at best, you must know about 10 or 20% of what's going on. Otherwise, you never get through the day... I was very hands on, and there's lots of stuff I didn't know, and lots of things that either went wrong or right that I would find out about afterwards.

Rudy Giuliani

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Hey, well, I've been a pretty conservative member of congress.

Roy Blunt

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I come from a long line of revolutionaries.

Joy Harjo

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An education is a more surefire guarantee that you have possibilities opened to you.

Jonathan Taylor Thomas

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My message is - keep moving. If you do, you'll keep arthritis at bay.

Donna Mills

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My legs are ice skaters' legs. No tan in sight.

Dorothy Hamill

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When I was younger, I was a robot. Wind her up and she plays tennis.

Chris Evert

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In Mexico, wrestling is part of the cultural fabric. The guys wear masks and they are real-life superheroes.

Chris Jericho

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I think that a lot of women experience that balance between feeling insecure about and appreciative for their bodies. I definitely have.

Christen Press

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