Jay Samit Quotes
Building a great team is the lifeblood of any startup, and finding great talent is one of the hardest and costliest tasks any CEO will ever face.
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I'm very self-critical.
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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There are times, especially on 'The Five,' where I've lost control for a moment. I always feel bad about it, but those always seem to be the times that people realize, if I'm mad about something, it must really matter.
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I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles.
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And you know when I was growing up, I knew I wanted to have kids, but I knew I didn't want to do it alone. Then once I was 41, 42, I had to accept that I probably wouldn't have kids unless I decided to adopt later on, but even then it would be with a partner.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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When I was a kid, I didn't know how I got into acting.
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Nobody really believes in equality anyway.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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I feel privileged that I've been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter. Of course, I always have my masters to fall back on.
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If you don't understand how to run an efficient operation, new machinery will just give you new problems of operation and maintenance. The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.
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Today the financial market is no good, but the money is there.
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For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.
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The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.
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There warn't anybody at the church, except maybe a hog or two, for there warn't any lock on the door, and hogs likes a puncheon floor in summer-time because it's cool. If you notice, most folks don't go to church only when they've got to; but a hog is different.
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I can't pretend that I'm a great student of the art of comedy because anybody that becomes philosophical about humour doesn't know what he's talking about.
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Empathy lies at the heart of Gatsby, like so many other great novels - the biggest sin is to be blind to others' problems and pains. Not seeing them means denying their existence.
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The Super Bowl isn't for kids, I had a great time though and it was worth every nickel of it because by doing this lame piece about the game I can put it on my expense account.
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Building a great team is the lifeblood of any startup, and finding great talent is one of the hardest and costliest tasks any CEO will ever face.
