Dara Khosrowshahi Quotes
My family owned a bunch of pharmaceutical manufacturing plants and other consumer-goods manufacturing plants. We would license Western goods and manufacture them in Iran and distribute them throughout the Middle East.
Quotes to Explore
-
To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.
-
I like films to be complete in their written form.
-
Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
-
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
-
It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
-
I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
-
I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
-
I mask every single day. I mask every morning - since I was 27 years old. I don't care the brand: it can be from the drugstore or high end. I can be walking my dog in the mask scaring children and people off, but it's my routine that I commit to every single day.
-
I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
-
The first thing I look at is, 'Is the entrepreneur going after really big problems, to the extent that it feels scary when they talk about it?' You wonder if the idea is possible. I have seen that a lot of times, people go after small problems, and that's a sign that they are not confident.
-
I became completely addicted to 'Angry Birds' for a while.
-
In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.
-
I don't aspire to have high approval ratings. I aspire, in light of my two predecessors, to be the most honest governor I can be. I'd rather focus on honesty than popularity.
-
We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
-
And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
-
The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.
-
Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in.
-
We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.
-
I'm usually working on several things at once. If I get bored with one, I can go on to another. That way, I never get stuck.
-
As a teenager, I put a lot of pressure on myself, and a lot of that, for me, was about finding a moral high ground. As I've grown up, I've decided to abandon that because it made me judgmental and also stressed me out.
-
I think I wrote 'The Trysting Place' in about three weeks. But it was inexperience that made me have to do that. I didn't feel good about the book all the time I was writing it. It felt a bit like wading through molasses.
-
My desire to be valued is manifested in cultivating relationships with my friends and family.
-
I don't have regrets I didn't spend more time with my family because I've lived my life to the full, and you can't look back in regret.
-
My family owned a bunch of pharmaceutical manufacturing plants and other consumer-goods manufacturing plants. We would license Western goods and manufacture them in Iran and distribute them throughout the Middle East.
