Douglas Leone Quotes
We've tried to build Sequoia Capital with an eye for the long term that we really look for in the companies we like to partner with.
Quotes to Explore
-
I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
-
I have nothing but love in my heart and everything I say is just an instrument for laughs.
-
I managed to slip two children out in the middle of my career and have been lucky with all the work.
-
My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.
-
I have some girls who I look back on and I think, 'Wow, they were really horrible to me.' I would love an apology from a few girls, but whatever. I'm not holding any grudges. I'm over it.
-
The atmosphere seems to change once the sun goes down and the race fans get to watch a good show.
-
I feel like people who know me, my fans, I want them to know I'm just a regular 21-year-old kid who likes movies, who likes to have fun. It lets people see the other side of you and not just the basketball thing.
-
I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
-
The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.
-
The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
-
It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.
-
I still have a young attitude.
-
Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.
-
What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.
-
I kind of always took it for granted the fact that my parents were Olympic medalists.
-
As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
-
Sorry, no, I'm never satisfied with my drumming.
-
If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
-
Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve.
-
I have no ill will in my heart against anybody in this world.
-
I don't ever want to be a person that I'm not. A lot of girls fall into the trap where they are trying to impress other people, and that's the time when they lose themselves.
-
It is all very well to sit back and hope for 'the best in this best of all possible worlds' but it's the course of personal and national suicide. Unless there is a vast alteration in man's civilization as it stumbles along today, man will not be here very long and none of us. Times must change.
-
We've tried to build Sequoia Capital with an eye for the long term that we really look for in the companies we like to partner with.
