Taavet Hinrikus Quotes

You start a business being hungry, foolish, and a little bit naive. But more often than not, you end up being disrupted yourself. It happened to Skype.

Taavet Hinrikus

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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  • Nationality: estonian
  • Birth: 1981

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BusinessYourselfStartEndYouUp

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

John Locke

EducationKnowledgeWorldFenceOnly

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Ann Landers

LifeFutureLiveLive LifeLook

Obamacare has got to go.

Steve King

GoGotObamacare

I've heard that I'm 'the future of tennis.' But that's all just random stuff.

Sloane Stephens

FutureRandomTennisJustStuff

Sometimes I go crazy - get into a mindspace where it doesn't matter what I spend. Like, on impulse, I might buy a $600 Dolce t-shirt, you know, just because it's silk and maybe there's some suede leather detailing. Or two of my favourite hoodies, I don't even know the brand, but they're' very thin soft cotton. $300 apiece!

Trey Songz

CrazyBrandYouGoKnowSometimes

I worked with Paul McCartney for a while and saw what it does to you to be treated like a god for twenty years.

Tracey Ullman

GodYouYearsSawTwentyLike

Idealism that makes no distinction between areas where our national interest lies and those from which it is remote does no good for America. The weariness of the post-Versailles, post-Korea, post-Vietnam eras is never far from the national mood.

Dick Morris

GoodAmericaMoodNeverInterest

The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.

Christopher Morley

WeddingEnoughToo MuchTroubleLock

I think of dying every day... At a certain age, you should be prepared to go at any time.

August Wilson

AgeTimeDayThinkYouEvery Day

We like Batman - we understand him, we suffer with him. On the other hand, we want to be Superman. But they're conflicting philosophies. Let's bring them together in one movie and see how we, as an audience, wrestle with our inner demons.

Wolfgang Petersen

TogetherDemonsWantUnderstandHand

I really like cages.

Poppy

LikeReally

I didn't have a whole lot of role models to say, 'This much is possible, versus this much.' So I finally said, 'I think I'd like to be a mayor. I'd like to pull together a city and help do good things.'

Susana Martinez

GoodTogetherCityGood ThingsThink

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