J. B. Pritzker Quotes
The more activity around Chicago-based companies, and the more success that entrepreneurs have in Chicago, the better we as venture capitalists in Chicago will do.
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I love the power of celebrity because you can give voice to the voiceless.
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He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.
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Accomplish something every day of your life.
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No, I'm not a horse better. Every once in a while somebody will give me a sure thing and of course it's not.
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I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
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I've often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics is part of reality, history in the making. Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.
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To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
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I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That's a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.
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We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.
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I love Queen Latifah! Queen Latifah is so beautiful! Every time you see her, if it's in a cosmetics ad, or on the red carpet, she's always flawless.
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My wife Kris and I enjoy keeping an active lifestyle, so it's hard to imagine what it would be like if breathing problems kept me from participating in the activities I love to do. But that's exactly what happens to many people who develop COPD, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
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I don't want to sound too Oprah-ish or anything like that, but I really believe that if you have the power to imagine particular things, you have the ability to transform them.
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Experts said public companies worry about the loss of customer confidence and the legal liability to shareholders or security vendors when they report flaws.
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I'm not going to choose between classical, Broadway or pop. I would love to stay where I am now - a mix of everything.
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Words are but the signs of ideas.
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Beneficial in theory, so-called free trade agreements far too often have been detrimental to the United States economy and the manufacturing sector that forms its central pillar.
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In most movies there is a Prince Charming who rides up and saves the girl.
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We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too.
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As a man, it is true that I will never know what it is like to be a woman. As an organizational psychologist, though, I feel a responsibility to bring evidence to bear on dynamics of work life that affect all of us, not only half of us.
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The Internet's great promise is to make the world's information universally accessible and useful.
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If you can get a laugh out of a name, you're ahead of the game.
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The success of ordinary cosmology speaks against the idea that the universe was created in a random fluctuation.
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You'll sacrifice a lot of things in the early part of your career to be successful, but to be ahead of your competitors, you have to work hard.
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The more activity around Chicago-based companies, and the more success that entrepreneurs have in Chicago, the better we as venture capitalists in Chicago will do.
