Dan Schulman Quotes
As CEO, I believe my most important job is to both define reality and inspire hope for the PayPal team. Defining reality includes being realistic about all the things that could go wrong so that we are prepared to navigate those challenges.
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Never having alone time is real tough on people.
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I believe there are more films that involve love and forgiveness than violence, but they often seem fake and are almost embarrassing to watch.
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More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.
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'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.
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Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that matters. With music, a song from the 1960s could be as relevant to someone today as the latest Ke$ha song.
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What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.
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From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always wanted to be an artist, but my parents were divorced, and my dad really wanted me to play sports, and that's how I got to see him. He would come pick me up or take me to practice, and he was always at my games.
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
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It's a trend to insult Wale, like that makes you cool on the Internet, and a part of it is because I respond.
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But I have never wanted to be a singer, because the exterior part of a career, I don't like very much.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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There's nothing I like more than picking fresh vegetables then putting them in the dinner you make that night.
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One cannot plan for the unexpected.
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Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.
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Poverty itself is not so bad as the poverty thought. It is the conviction that we are poor and must remain so that is fatal.
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We provide business advice and guidance. We started it here in India first, and now we have taken it globally. India was the first for startup incubation in the world for us.
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When we fought for freedom, for the establishment of a Jewish state, we didn't send a questionnaire to the Jewish nation asking if it wanted a Jewish state.
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The problem with working under an outside label is that your music never seems to reach the right people.
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I prefer to play up front, but if the coach puts me on the wing, then that means it is better for the team, and for me, that is the most important thing.
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Most of the suits I try to wear are bespoke.
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As a teenager, I was always this strange mixture of kind of vice-captain of the rugby team and sensitive artist type the rest of the time. I was sent away to this public school in the middle of nowhere, and I think we managed to completely miss out on normal youth culture.
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I haven't tried to buffer myself. I like rolling the dice.
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I only have two rules for my newly born daughter: she will dress well and never have sex.
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As CEO, I believe my most important job is to both define reality and inspire hope for the PayPal team. Defining reality includes being realistic about all the things that could go wrong so that we are prepared to navigate those challenges.
