Jeff Weiner Quotes
Facebook is massive in scale and scope. Twitter is a public communication forum, but if I'm following you, you're not necessarily following me. LinkedIn is, simply, a professional network.
Quotes to Explore
-
Age is not different from earlier life as long as you're sitting down.
-
I felt nobody would understand what was going on in my mind.
-
I said if I have a No. 1, I'll do a naked photo shoot! I'm not sure a lot of people would like to see that, but it was more to the fans, really. Every gig I do, they try to get me to take my clothes off, so it's a promise to them - if I get a No. 1, I'll happily do a naked shoot.
-
Life's full of lots of dream-stealers always telling you you need to do something more sensible. I think it doesn't matter what your dream is, just fight the dream-stealers and hold onto it.
-
I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.
-
You gotta understand, you can't look at no pictures and look at the media and the critics and what they saying on no Internet.
-
Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
-
Most people are completely unaware of their breath. They violate your space, they have no idea that they have halitosis.
-
I don't believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn't say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It's an ongoing process.
-
A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
-
Having people jumping in front of you taking a photo can be unnerving.
-
Every time you pass a law, it is a little bite out of freedom.
-
The First Amendment applies to rogues and scoundrels. You don't lose your First Amendment rights because of a sleazy personality, or even for having committed a crime. Felons in jail are protected by the First Amendment.
-
I have a very pragmatic approach to diets. Ones you can't stick to don't do you any good. Some people say, 'Just eat half of what's on your plate,' but I can't do that!
-
Hats look exactly the same. There's no difference between The Writing Hat and The Acting Hat.
-
The room-service Caesar salads with soggy croutons, the distant relatives who show up at readings pitching weird, far-fetched investment schemes, the fans who have you sign a book to 'Cathy' and then tell you, 'No, it's Kathy with a K' - it gets challenging after a while. It tests your stamina.
-
You must do as your people do. If my people are poor, I must be poor. People ask me, 'Why don't you find a personal coach or a private car?' I can't. Then I won't be part of my people.
-
The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
-
Danger plus survival equals fun. -From A Work in Progress
-
Women in music have always been associated with pop - with prettiness, theatricality, melodic hooks and dance beats.
-
I'm glad I went through all the normal teenage dramas that a lot of people go through. I can really relate to 'Secret Life' because I witnessed those similar struggles.
-
The problem with venality in business is that getting outraged about it makes it easy to miss the systemic problems that venality often disguises.
-
Facebook is massive in scale and scope. Twitter is a public communication forum, but if I'm following you, you're not necessarily following me. LinkedIn is, simply, a professional network.
