Jeff Weiner Quotes
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Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
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There are some parts of my life that are wonderful, and it's amazing to get to go to cool events and award shows and things like that, but I think the outside perception is that your life just changes overnight and you wear Dolce and Gabanna suits and drive a Mercedes. But life's just not like that.
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Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.
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When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.
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In a small town, it's either sports or a band with your buddies. I was always athletic. But in college, I was exposed to all this new music, and I was drawn to hip-hop and R&B.
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For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.
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We watch our sons go to war, disagree with the rationale for sending them, loathe the men who ordered them to battle, and then, when the veterans come home, beg and plead with the local V.A. to ensure they have access to proper care.
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As cliched as it sounds, I'm taking every day as it comes.
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I'm never running for office. I love being able to speak to members of Congress or members of the Senate and floating on either side, because it takes all of us. It's going to take both of them.
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Mama is my chance to be a stand-up comedian. In my mind, it's my chance to be Chris Rock.
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We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
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Usually, when inspiration strikes late, the light of day reveals that I haven't gotten an idea for a book so much as a psychiatric case study.
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I have had the good fortune to be able to climb the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. I have enjoyed the freedom I had gained from building a successful business from scratch, making some money, and creating the lifestyle I wanted.
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Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
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If you never give up, you'll be successful.
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Educate yourself: Read up on current events and books.
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Really, what you should tell a novelist is, 'Keep going until you finish the draft. Don't show it to anyone.'
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We were just holes, after all, holes filled up with light, and deep in our secret hearts we worried that we were an accident
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You're everything I thought you never were and nothing like I thought you could've been.
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What cracks me up is people who think I don't take baseball seriously. It's the most important thing in my life. They don't know how hard it is for me to get a bad game out of my mind. I still can't, but I'm getting better.
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I grew up in East Flatbush, Brooklyn. At the time I was growing up with my father - before it was gentrified - it was a very rough neighborhood. He felt that if I got into or started embracing the rap culture, I would be one step closer to being on the streets.
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You have to maintain a culture of transformation and stay true to your values.
