Brad Stone Quotes
Executives are rarely comfortable speaking on the record, particularly in secretive Silicon Valley companies.
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You can't play it safe if you want to get ahead.
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Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.
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We are a pluralist civilisation because we allow mosques to be built in our countries, and we are not going to stop simply because Christian missionaries are thrown into prison in Kabul. If we did so, we, too, would become Taliban.
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When people go through tragic circumstances, it's not that there is no love there, but it's so hard to deal with and sometimes the gap starts to happen.
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For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
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I'm vehemently against population transfer. I'm against expelling anyone from his house, ever - whether it be a Jew or an Arab.
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I love the idea of giving up the vengeful nature that so many of us have.
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He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
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Politicians know that structural reforms - to increase competition, foster innovation, and drive institutional change - are the way to tackle structural impediments to growth. But they know that while the pain from reform is immediate, gains are typically delayed and their beneficiaries uncertain.
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If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
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We all have different things that make us strong and weak, but if we communicate and we really open ourselves and open our hearts, you're going to be amazed by the things that you can learn.
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Christianity affects your whole life. I feel I'm more competitive, a better player, but off the field is where there is always a battle.
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Slice Mango - something that, you know, is a phenomenal drink, but mango is not a flavour that is easily liked by many people in the West. People in Latin America like it. But we do a lot of Mango in India.
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When I say things that sound insane, like only the smartest million people should have the right to vote, well, I mean that.
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I envision a day when a businesswoman will be having lunch, and then her phone will ring. When she opens it up, she will see an image of the latest Marc Jacobs coat that just arrived in stock. With a click of a button, she can purchase it and then find it waiting for her when she gets back to her office.
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I think it's always funny when somebody thinks you're going to do something super sexy and then you don't.
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I honestly don't listen to a lot of music - I spend so much time working at my own music.
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I'm not a rock star. Sure I am, to a certain extent because of the situation, but when kids ask me how it feels to be a rock star, I say leave me alone, I'm not a rock star. I'm not in it for the fame, I'm in it because I like to play.
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Before I made it big I worked as a dishwasher, washing dishes in this place called Dishwasher House where people could just come in and do whatever they wanted to the dishes and we had to clean them with our hands till they bled. A lot of struggling actors worked there-Downey Jr., Joaquin Phoenix, Damon Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Keenen Ivory Wayans-and we actually all kind of wish we still did.
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Through silence only the good messages go unheard.
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Pies, para qué los quieroSi tengo alas para volar.
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When will the state of the country be sound?... When its people believe that the end result of cowardice is more disastrous than that of behaving with integrity.
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Integrity is when your good intentions meet your actions - on a consistent basis.
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Executives are rarely comfortable speaking on the record, particularly in secretive Silicon Valley companies.
