Blake Mycoskie Quotes
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When you built television sets, you have all this test equipment. And you'd have all these lines and squares on the screen to test it. So it occurred to me that it might be fun for people to control the lines and squares on the screen.
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There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.
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I may have managed to build a successful technology startup that had gone public by the time my three kids hit their 13th birthdays, but don't think that bought my wife and me any special respect from our teenagers.
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Nobody wants to be against technology, but I think that regulators should not - and people should not - assume that faster is always better in markets. We need to question technology to insure that markets continue to perform their fundamental purposes.
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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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When I took my first job, I was among only a handful of women. It was isolating at times. My love for technology kept me going, and I got to where I am today driven by my passion and self confidence.
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I always joke with people that having nephews is the best birth control there is.
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If you want to get an email to Robert Redford, you send it to his assistant, and she prints it out. And then he will write you a letter, which is incredibly rare and incredibly classy. Unfortunately, I can't be that removed from technology.
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The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.
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If my strength is technology, financial structuring is my son's skill.
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Maintaining control indefinitely over millions of Palestinians will inevitably lead to a demographic nightmare and cannot be sustained if Israel is to remain true to its founding principles.
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We like scalable companies that we think we can grow - because of our expertise, operational is consumer-facing. For the most part, consumer-facing, technology-driven process, driven sometimes if they're call center or into the sales type of stuff associated with it.
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Deficits are like putting dynamite in the hands of children. They can get out of control very quickly.
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I'm not at every party; I'm not seen everywhere. That's why people still care about my brand.
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'We're in control, and we have what we want!'
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I think we are living in selfish times. I'm the first one to say that I'm the most selfish. We live in the so-called 'first world,' and we may be first in a lot of things like technology, but we are behind in empathy.
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With Sync technology, we're seamlessly connected to the Internet, hands-free, and able to focus on the road but also able to handle guidance and navigation and play your music.
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Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
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Really, what I'm trying to do is make soul music, but I don't even think of it as a genre. It's more of a feeling.
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I love to laugh and dance. That's kind of my nature, though I end up always playing these angry, depressing characters.
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It doesn't matter who wins if I don't. I only care if I win. I'm jealous of anyone else who wins.
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Nashville has a great creative atmosphere. It's a small, close-knit music community that you can't find anywhere else.
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With technology today, companies are less in control of their brand.
