Jay Samit Quotes

As a serial entrepreneur, angel investor and public company CEO, nothing irks me more than when a startup founder talks about wanting to cash in with an initial public offering.

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• As soon as one project is finished I like to go straight on to something else.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • Like
  • Something
  • Project

• I love roles that don't really have a template or a paradigm and force me to create using my own imagination... that really, really turns me on.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Imagination
  • Force
  • Roles

• Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Time
  • Different
  • Marriage

• Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.

  

  Waris Dirie
  • World
  • Wonder
  • Recognise

• We must defend what we have achieved so far.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Achieved
  • Far
  • Defend

• I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'

  

  Gary Ross
  • Movie
  • Doing
  • Entertainment

• There is no way to peace; peace is the way.

  

  A. J. Muste
  • Way
  • Peace

• Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• As long as there have been elections, there have been attempts to keep eligible people from voting.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
  • Long
  • Voting

• I love any excuse to come to New York - when it's not February.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Love
  • Come
  • Excuse

• Women and girls, men and boys all share the right to live free of violence, which is, unfortunately, experienced by both men and women. Women and girls, however, disproportionately experience violence due to a deeply rooted global culture of gender discrimination.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Men
  • Live
  • Women

• I wake up every morning and I feel like I'm juggling glass balls. I live in Los Angeles, my business is run out of London, and most evenings I'm cuddled up in front of Skype, in my dressing gown, speaking with my studio in London. I travel a lot, my team travel a lot, but I wouldn't have it any other way.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Up
  • Live
  • Business

• I've always challenged myself and the people who work with me to take new approaches to traditional business challenges, to push the envelope and constantly ask whether our sacred cows are still producing great milk.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• I certainly had no intention of playing a man.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Man
  • Playing
  • Intention

• Once you get the right image the details aren't that important.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Important
  • You
  • Details

• I live on the water. I live in a neighborhood that's consummately connected to my neighbors. I bump into them every day. I can bike to work.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Work
  • Live
  • Day

• I began singing in dive bars and really small clubs. I dragged my piano down the stairs, and I went down the street with my keyboard, and I would go to every different dive bar that I could get to agree to let me play. I'd call and pretend I was Lady Gaga's manager.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Different
  • Play
  • Street

• The school was nothing but reminiscence - of an Italian hill town, a French abbey, an English academy, the different sources improbably but convincingly melded into a fantasy about the classic sites of Europe as imagined by exiles from cold peripheral lands, nostalgia about somebody else's past.

  

  Edmund White
  • Different
  • School
  • Past

• Warfare is a means and not an end. Warfare is a tool of revolutionaries. The important thing is the revolution! The important thing is the revolutionary cause, revolutionary ideas, revolutionary objectives, revolutionary sentiments, revolutionary virtues!

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Important
  • Revolution

• i'm in a muddle about a lot of things -- i've just discovered that i've a mind, and i'm starting to read" "read what?" "everything. i have to pick and choose, of course, but mostly things that make me think.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Starting

• I learned the first night that IHOP's not the place to order fish.

  

  Larry David
  • Night
  • Place
  • Fish

• Whether I get adequate attention or not, people here do know the work I have been doing systematically and without compromise for over 40 years. I get tired of people making excuses for guys who don't continue the art because they can't make a living.

  

  Bill Dixon
  • People
  • Work
  • Art

• You have got to be willing to be poor as an entrepreneur.

  

  Sean Parker
  • Poor
  • Entrepreneur

• As a serial entrepreneur, angel investor and public company CEO, nothing irks me more than when a startup founder talks about wanting to cash in with an initial public offering.

  

  Jay Samit
  • Angel
  • Entrepreneur