Jan Koum Quotes

In some countries, WhatsApp is like oxygen.

Jan Koum

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• I'm encouraging other people, whether they're professionals or not, to use their creativity to express themselves, to get a conversation going, to get the party started, really.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Party
  • Creativity

• Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Truth
  • Strong
  • Gold

• One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.

  

  Natalie Morales
  • People
  • Job
  • Lost

• One of the problems in the Navy is that tradition of being captain of the ship. And an awful lot of people can be retired in the Navy, get over it, get a life, and go on. But there's a lot who can't. And when they have to give up the ship, they got to be captain of something, every single day.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I do think people are definitely sick of the Kardashians.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • People
  • Think
  • Sick

• Who have I picked fights with over the years? Bill Gates. Google. Mark Zuckerberg. Even - despite everything that's written about my relationship with Steve Jobs - we had yelling matches.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Relationship
  • Years
  • Google

• Of course, we are all egoists. Egoism is so much a part of our humanity.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Humanity
  • Our
  • Egoism

• I have a huge passion for animals and while retirement is a long way off, when I do I would love to do something with animals.

  

  Sally Pearson
  • Long
  • Love
  • Passion

• It's not easy, especially in our politically polarized world, to recognize both the structural and the cultural barriers that so many poor kids face. But I think that if you don't recognize both, you risk being heartless or condescending, and often both.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • World
  • Kids
  • Risk

• I want to let fans know how much I appreciate them and how much I appreciate them showing interest in our music and me personally.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Music
  • Me
  • Appreciate

• Our target is not negotiations, it is the end of the apartheid system. There can be no compromise about that.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • End
  • System
  • Compromise

• News is the backbone of our network; the main commodity and the main successes of Al Jazeera came out of our involvement in covering the news in the Middle East.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • News
  • Involvement
  • Backbone

• It's important to recognize how special New Orleans is. You play the snare drum or the clarinet in any other city, and you'd be considered a nerd, but here, there's no shame in it, and it's absolutely valued.

  

  Irvin Mayfield
  • Important
  • City
  • Special

• How do we turn our nation around? President Obama thinks the answer is more and more government. Government is not the answer. You are not doing anyone a favor by creating dependency, destroying individual responsibility.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Government
  • Responsibility

• My parents never told me to get a real job. They always said, 'Go for it! If this is what you want to do, work hard.' They were always very supportive.

  

  Imelda May
  • Work
  • Real
  • Job

• Neglect of appearance becomes men.

  

  Ovid
  • Men
  • Appearance
  • Neglect

• 13. It is said that the heart is in the microcosm just as the orb of the sun in the macrocosm. The mind in Sahasrara is like the disc of the moon.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Sun

• Take a close look at the part that 'love' plays in your life. Make an inventory of love: people, things, ideas, experiences. Try to live your gratitude.

  

  Patch Adams
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

  

  Lawrence Durrell
  • May

• I sold my first script when I was 21 - this kids' adventure movie that never got made. I just bought that one back, actually. I'm pretty psyched about it.

  

  Jason Segel
  • Kids
  • Movie
  • Pretty

• We're going to see how he does here in the next couple of days and how it reacts to treatment. It's that same type of pain that he's had. It's going to flare up. It's done that throughout his career and it's going to continue to do that. We just have to monitor it and see how he does.

  

  Andy Reid
  • Up
  • Done
  • Career

• I never pay any attention. I'm sure it's not such a good way to be, but I don't really follow market research.

  

  Anna Wintour
  • Attention
  • Research
  • Market

• ...a woman without love for her origins is lost.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Love
  • Woman
  • Origins

• In some countries, WhatsApp is like oxygen.

  

  Jan Koum