Fred Wilson Quotes
One of the great things about young entrepreneurs is that they don't know that something can't be done. So they try something that's so audacious and usually end up pulling it off.
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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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Catholics and evangelicals need to remain allied, and in solidarity, against the increasingly aggressive secularism of our age.
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Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.
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The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace.
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The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.
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Good design should be honest.
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I studied Morse code.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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I always tell audiences when I talk about writing: Writing isn't something I do; writing is something that I am. I am writing - it's just an expression of me.
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I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.
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I want to win football games.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
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I'm a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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In terms of being a 'sneakerhead,' there was one point where I was obsessively following every sneaker blog. That's the beauty of Twitter: To get the heads up on what's coming out.
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I think the next little bit of excitement is flying. I hope I am not too old to take it up seriously, nor too stupid about machines to qualify as a commercial pilot. I do not feel like spending the rest of my life writing books that no one will read. It is not as though I wanted to write them.
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For our white members, voting is something they have done for hundreds of years. But for us, it is not such a traumatic thing, because we have never participated in an election.
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I have the great privilege and honor of serving as the Founder and President of the Chamber of Digital Commerce, the world's largest trade association representing the blockchain industry.
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One of the great things about young entrepreneurs is that they don't know that something can't be done. So they try something that's so audacious and usually end up pulling it off.
