Jan Koum Quotes
If partnering with Facebook meant that we had to change our values, we wouldn't have done it.
Quotes to Explore
-
I definitely go with the flow because I feel like I have been so lucky, and so many things have happened to me that just never should have happened.
-
If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
-
Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.
-
These are estimates that are done by the experts as to how much they expect we could get from the first lease sale that would take place in ANWR, and the estimate is about $2.5 billion.
-
In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.
-
Stories are like that. Like cities, they are built on the stones and bones of the past.
-
You have had indeed a fair trial. It is a shocking thing when a judge of your high office is shown to have betrayed the truth and his honor, and I sentence you to the penitentiary.
-
Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross and the Jackson 5, that's what I grew up on.
-
I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
-
It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.
-
I love Lancome's L'Absolu Rouge lipstick, as it lasts. Unless you spend the whole night snogging, you won't need to reapply it.
-
My desires are simply I love to teach, I love to be in uniform, I love to throw batting practice, I love to be with the kids.
-
I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look gigantic. I saw that making the details small made the form monumental. So in my figures, the eyes, the mouth are all small, and the exterior form is huge.
-
We're trying to create a better world, not a perfect one. It cannot ever be perfect.
-
All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
-
I am all for everyone having a voice; I just don't think everyone has earned the microphone. And that's what the Internet has done.
-
I don't think Steve Jobs had much desire to share his fortune.
-
You don't need to be a spook to care about encryption. If you travel with your computer or keep it in a place where other people can put their hands on it, you're vulnerable.
-
When I come to England, I don't claim England; I don't own it. I feel a great kinship because of the literature and the landscape. I have great affection for Edward Thomas and Philip Larkin, but there's still this distance: looking on at what I'm admiring, separate from what I am. And that's OK.
-
When I write, I don't think about messages for my readers.
-
Seek women mentors. If you're a businesswoman, look at the TEDx conferences. There's a lot of businesswomen that speak on there. I find them extremely inspiring.
-
I've done a lot of things in a business where you're lucky to stay alive, so when the time comes, I'll be happy to pass my knowledge along and help someone else.
-
If it can be dreamed, it can be done.
-
If partnering with Facebook meant that we had to change our values, we wouldn't have done it.
