Jay Samit Quotes
In order to protect against being disrupted, startups also need to recruit employees that are committed to life-long learning. The skills that made your team members valuable may not be the skills needed to take your company to the next level or to compete in emerging markets.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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I've no regrets at all, but I still think at times that I would have loved to play in England. You live football over there; it's a great culture. People respect you more; it's more difficult to find respect in Spain. There is more criticism here.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.
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Either you are extrovert or introvert, and so I am an introvert in that sense. I'm not a social person that wants to go to parties.
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There's a molecule inside of you that is connected to everything - every person, every energy, every thing. You look for it, and when you find it, then you allow it to magnify and grow and be the dominating chemistry inside of you.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.
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Enough to using Texas as a political laboratory for testing far-right ideas. Enough to using Texas as a workshop for fattening the wallets of their special interest friends and supporters. And enough of politicians listening only to each other, rather than real Texans.
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Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.
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Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
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My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.
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If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
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I don't read books.
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I've learned how to stay humble. I don't want to get in over my head because when you do that it takes you off your game.
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It's my father's legacy. My father's view was that the public is the employer of these government employees and has the right to know what they're up to.
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In the beginning, when I first found out I had a disease that was incurable, emotionally I had to get used to the idea of being sick before I could think about making any other major decisions in my life.
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A prayerful study and experience are essential for a correct interpretation of the scriptures.
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Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
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It's a very complicated issue about when is a fact not a fact in the context of opinions.
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One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren't enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.
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If I were an antiquarian, I would have eyes only for old stuff, but I am a historian. Therefore, I love life.
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In order to protect against being disrupted, startups also need to recruit employees that are committed to life-long learning. The skills that made your team members valuable may not be the skills needed to take your company to the next level or to compete in emerging markets.
