Fred Wilson Quotes

I'm not saying M.B.A.s can't be great entrepreneurs. They can. But you don't need a degree to figure out it's costing you $5,000 per month to run your business, so you need $30,000 to keep it going for six more months.

Fred Wilson

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• I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.

  

  Karen Elson
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• Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • May
  • Know
  • Same

• There seem to be many causes of depression. One cause is profound loss, grief. Economic hardship we know is linked to depression. We don't have a full picture.

  

  Irving Kirsch
  • Picture
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• I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.

  

  Jackson Browne
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• I really was about to pass out during my entire wedding. I just didn't know if I could marry anybody.

  

  Patricia Richardson
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• A woman who places a high priority on performance and excellence is seen as imperial. A man is seen as demanding and tough.

  

  Faye Wattleton
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• I know that many authors say editors don't edit anymore, but that's not been true in my experience.

  

  Victor LaValle
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• It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful, to strive for what is advantageous.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • First
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• In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Hope
  • New
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• A lot of people love the idea of improvising but are terrified of it, so I tried to make a book that was not a chef's book about improvising but a real home cook's book with a real home cook's pantry, supermarket ingredients, that sort of thing.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • People
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• I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Life
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• Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.

  

  Babasaheb
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• One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels.

  

  Jack McDevitt
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• You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Time
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• I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the Tim Burton one.

  

  Rahul Kohli
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• When you have young children, it is hard to see live performances. Unless I am in it. I do manage to see my husband Rupert Goold's work, of course.

  

  Kate Fleetwood
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• I'm a runner first before anything else.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
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• When you have a chance to play a character people can relate to, it's rewarding.

  

  Karine Vanasse
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• Stella, think not that I by verse seek fame,Who seek, who hope, who love, who live but thee;Thine eyes my pride, thy lips mine history:If thou praise not, all other praise is shame.

  

  Philip Sidney
  • Live
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• They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.

  

  Barney Ross
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• One of my favorite venues is the Bowery Ballroom in New York. I love the room; there's a tiny stage, but I really like the feel of it.

  

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• I just love great teams.

  

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• You can't do business without money, of course, because that's how it works, but I'm not in business only for money.

  

  Alexander Mamut
  • Money
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• I'm not saying M.B.A.s can't be great entrepreneurs. They can. But you don't need a degree to figure out it's costing you $5,000 per month to run your business, so you need $30,000 to keep it going for six more months.

  

  Fred Wilson
  • Great
  • Business