Jack Dangermond Quotes

I don't understand why young entrepreneurs feel this pressure to take venture capital or go public. Don't get me wrong: Public companies are A-OK with me. I just think there is another way. Staying private is a lot more sane.

Jack Dangermond

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My first car was a little white Volkswagen City Golf. They've just been discontinued in South Africa, but they were the staple first car for most of my peer group. It's the most entry-level four-door four-seater that Volkswagen ever made. I named him Doug. I don't know why.

Jodi Balfour

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One hopes that they'll never be able to use mind control weapons, because we're all done for if that happens. I don't want military people, or political people, to have that type of power over those of us who just get by from day to day.

Joe Haldeman

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What I do when speaking in public is trying to do it as best as possible and trying to make everybody comfortable with my words. Sometimes getting this is very difficult, but I try my best.

Andres Iniesta

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The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

Andrew Carnegie

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Regulation is strangling businesses of all sizes in California, and we've got to streamline regulation so it's easy, not hard, to do business.

Meg Whitman

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Essentially, I am an actor for hire. I am not a rarified creature. I do all these different things, and they all interest me.

John Hurt

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I certainly knew of 'World of Warcraft'; I had never actually played because I knew that if I started playing, I would never get any work done - because it would just totally absorb me.

Michael A. Stackpole

WorkMeWorldDoneNeverPlaying

They demanded a monopoly of the coasting trade, in order to get higher freights than they could get in open competition with the carriers of the world.

Robert Toombs

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My job is to protect the football and score points and lead this offense on drives to score points.

Brock Osweiler

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My life is storytelling. I believe in stories, in their incredible power to keep people alive, to keep the living alive, and the dead.

Tim O'Brien

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You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I don't mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship.

Marilyn Hacker

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It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.

Muhammad Ali

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