Fred Wilson Quotes

Equity capital is expensive. Every time you do a raise, you dilute.

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• What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Past
  • Attitude
  • General

• The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form.

  

  Irving Stone
  • Life
  • Art
  • True

• Leaders cannot work in a vacuum. They may take on larger, seemingly more important roles in an organization, but this does not exclude them from asking for and using feedback. In fact, a leader arguably needs feedback more so than anyone else. It's what helps a leader respond appropriately to events in pursuit of successful outcomes.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Work
  • Important
  • May

• I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Speak
  • Hebrew
  • Persian

• I got lost one time for a couple hours. It was pretty bad. I got lost in a creek, and I couldn't find my way back. The cops even had to come.

  

  Gabriel Basso
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Pretty

• Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Soul
  • Death
  • Peace

• Everything I've ever written, I had a very distinct vision of what I wanted it to look like. But, other directors never do it that way.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Never
  • Vision
  • Look

• I tend to not watch things that are current. And then if everybody swears it's amazing then I'll like watch the whole series in a weekend.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Amazing
  • Like
  • Weekend

• The Cistercians do not eat meat... Yet they keep pigs to the number of many thousands, and sell the bacon - though perhaps not quite all of it. The heads, legs, and feet they neither give away, throw away, nor sell. What becomes of them God knows.

  

  Walter Map
  • God
  • Feet
  • Meat

• When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label is always telling you, 'This ain't going to last,' so I worked myself half to death. I learnt from that and I like to pace myself now.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Death
  • Myself
  • Always

• We don't have to look back at da Vinci's work and Albert Einstein's work and Mozart's work. We're actually living in the time period that David Lynch is creating his art. We're so lucky.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Time
  • Work
  • Art

• Univision's close-to-50-year relationship with Hispanics makes us one of the leading media brands in this country and the gateway to connect with this consumer.

  

  Randy Falco
  • Country
  • Relationship
  • Media

• I think energy is the most important thing that we can give to people as performers. Anything else is a little bit pretentious. But energy is not.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Important
  • Energy

• Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Why
  • Nature
  • Man

• When you work somewhere and you feel comfortable, you don't want to leave. You want to stay there forever.

  

  Felix Hernandez
  • Work
  • Want
  • You

• If man was the relative of animals, then animals were the relatives of man, and in degrees bearers of that inwardness of which man, the most advanced of their kin, is conscious in himself.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Man
  • Animals
  • Relatives

• You can be accessible without catering to an audience.

  

  Halsey
  • You
  • Audience
  • Without

• What I hope in my ideal world is that with each project, I'll either get to work with a really great script that would force me to grow, or work with a really great actor who will make me better.

  

  Laura Linney
  • World
  • Work
  • Great

• The irony here is this administration is spending more money on climate change research and development than any administration in all the rest of the industrialized world combined.

  

  Christine Todd Whitman
  • World
  • Money
  • Rest

• It's important to be a global citizen at the same time and appreciate different cultures and different people and different ways of life.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I wouldn't wish the eighties on anyone, it was the time when all that was rotten bubbled to the surface. If you were not at the receiving end of this mayhem you could be unaware of it.

  

  Derek Jarman
  • Time
  • Wish
  • Surface

• Live-action has always been my focus and my passion. I love voice-over, and I definitely could see myself doing some voice-over, as much as I could, and even if I ended up doing only that for the rest of my life, and I could be successful at it, that would be great. But I think my real dream is to do films and live-action films.

  

  Jeremy Shada
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• The press always causes a certain amount of hesitance for people who are considering entering public life. So simply encouraging women to enter politics, on any level, not just on the state level, is extremely important.

  

  Kerry Healey
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• Equity capital is expensive. Every time you do a raise, you dilute.

  

  Fred Wilson
  • Time