Fred Wilson Quotes

If you are successful, you will be cloned. That's life. In fact, it's a sign that you've made it when clones of your website, mobile app, and business start cropping up.

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• True economy consists in always making the income exceed the out-go. Wear the old clothes a little longer if necessary; dispense with the new pair of gloves; mend the old dress: live on plainer food if need be; so that, under all circumstances, unless some unforeseen accident occurs, there will be a margin in favor of the income.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Live
  • True
  • Food

• Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Music
  • Kids
  • Game

• Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.

  

  Gary Hart
  • Me
  • Care
  • Bored

• I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Beautiful
  • Dream
  • Wish

• I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Acting

• Sick children, if not too shy to speak, will always express this wish. They invariably prefer a story to be told to them, rather than read to them.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Children
  • Wish
  • Speak

• Women drive box office.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Women
  • Office
  • Box

• When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.

  

  Irving Layton
  • You
  • Clever
  • Convince

• Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Men
  • Government
  • Turn

• The future ain't what it used to be.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Future
  • Used

• If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years.

  

  Malcolm X
  • You
  • Years
  • Turn

• You get steely nerves playing poker.

  

  Nate Silver
  • You
  • Playing
  • Poker

• I've never asked a player if they would sign my shoe.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Player
  • Never
  • Shoe

• I always say 'thriller;' if they see you're a woman - and you're a blond woman - people assume you're writing about cats and romances where somebody has died.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Writing
  • Woman

• I love women's bodies. I love luxury.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Women
  • Love
  • Luxury

• I think that when something happens when you're growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren't as straightforward.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Up
  • World
  • Death

• I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Know
  • Kind
  • Personality

• Suppose that every prospective parent in the world stopped having children naturally, and instead produced clones of themselves. What would the world be like in another 20 or 30 years? The answer is: much like today. Cloning would only copy the genetic aspects of people who are already here.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • World
  • Children

• Our country presents on every side the evidences of that continued favor under whose auspices it, has gradually risen from a few feeble and dependent colonies to a prosperous and powerful confederacy.

  

  Martin Van Buren
  • Country
  • Powerful

• The man who tried his best and failed is superior to the man who never tried.

  

  Bud Wilkinson
  • Man
  • Best
  • Failed

• We must consider the distinctive characters and the general nature of plants from the point of view of their morphology , their behavior under external conditions, their mode of generation, and the whole course of their life.

  

  Theophrastus
  • Character
  • Nature
  • Plant

• I'm a compulsive storyteller, an avid reader, and have always nurtured the secret goal of spending my life as a writer.

  

  Astro Teller
  • Life

• A man of 25 has before him some 100,000 working hours should he retire at 65. How many of your working hours will be alive with the magnificent force of positive mental attitude? And how many of them will have the life knocked out of them with the stunning blows of negative mental attitude?

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Life
  • Men
  • Positive

• If you are successful, you will be cloned. That's life. In fact, it's a sign that you've made it when clones of your website, mobile app, and business start cropping up.

  

  Fred Wilson
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