Walt Mossberg Quotes

Microsoft's Windows 3.1, released in 1992, was the first truly successful edition of Windows and juiced the Redmond juggernaut. Apple's Macintosh System 7.5, released in 1994, was another in a string of versions that lacked key architectural features that the Mac didn't have until Steve Jobs returned and brought with him the code that became OS X.

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• More than once, I've wished my real life had a delete key.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Life
  • Real
  • Key

• I think the most successful are the most paranoid. The first thing people do when they buy a mansion is they build the biggest wall you could possibly build around it. What happens is, now you become a target. If I go into the hood, I'm at a disadvantage. They could carry guns. I can't. They can hit me in the face. I can't.

  

  Ice T
  • People
  • Think
  • Wall

• I think I'd be a million times more successful and more iconic if I was a singer in the '40s. I'd be allowed a level of mystery, and I think I'd suit that decade.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Think
  • Successful
  • Mystery

• Global governance cannot be limited to the crafting of instruments related to the promotion of democracy. A key component must be the creation of fair and equitable rules to enhance the development prospects of developing countries.

  

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar
  • Democracy
  • Rules
  • Key

• What you pay for an investment is the single biggest determinant for how successful that investment will be. When equity prices are high, your returns will be lower. When they are cheap, your returns will be higher.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • High
  • You
  • Single

• The key is working with great directors. A film is so many different people and all their talents, but particularly the directors, because of the idiosyncrasies of that person.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • People
  • Great
  • Different

• Hard work is not why I have been successful as a model.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Work
  • Why
  • Model

• Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is 80% of being a successful hitter. The other 20% is just execution.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • Successful
  • Execution
  • Throw

• Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That's just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.

  

  J. Cole
  • President
  • Successful
  • Skin

• We've been probably to some degree too successful.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Successful
  • Degree
  • Some

• The identification of the genes which determine biological phenomena and the study of the control they exert on these phenomena has proven to be the most successful approach to a detailed understanding of the mechanism of biological processes.

  

  Baruj Benacerraf
  • Control
  • Understanding
  • Study

• I had a successful career: not necessarily a Hall of Fame career, but a successful one.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Career
  • Successful
  • Fame

• The lifestyle that comes with being an actor in a successful TV show isn't something I gravitate toward.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Actor
  • Successful
  • Lifestyle

• To be honest, I've made a game out of trying to live through my James Dean, Janis Joplin, Freddie Prinze, Jim Morrison period, those demons that we all have that we're either successful or not at making work for us rather than destroy us.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Work
  • Live
  • Trying

• The successful landing on the moon, very probably, is the best story.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Best
  • Moon
  • Successful

• A lot of shows fly under the radar for the first couple seasons and then become successful. It doesn't necessarily have any bearing on the success of the show or how much the network is behind it.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Success
  • Couple
  • Successful

• The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.

  

  Van Wyck Brooks
  • Man
  • Courage
  • Successful

• Analysis of soil, grave goods and skeletons has been key to our understanding of archaeology and the migration of peoples, as well as their daily lives. But in mainstream history, we tend to stick to documents.

  

  Kate Williams
  • History
  • Understanding
  • Daily

• Probably I'll not be so successful if I will keep everything in myself inside of me.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Me
  • Myself
  • Successful

• I'm always afraid, because I do most of my stuff at home, where nobody bothers me, and I don't have to stroke somebody's ego or be careful about hurting someone's feelings. But I also want to know that I can still go into the world and be with other people and make music.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Music
  • Home
  • Ego

• I would say that the race of Hillary Clinton was very important to this country, because it showed that a woman could win the state, that a woman could raise money. I think that every woman is sitting a little taller, not only in our own country, but I think women around the world watch what's happening in the United States.

  

  Carolyn Maloney
  • World
  • Important
  • Country

• My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.

  

  Carl Andre
  • World
  • Art
  • Desire

• Select your friendships carefully. Gather people around you who will reinforce your lifestyle.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • People
  • You
  • Friendships

• Microsoft's Windows 3.1, released in 1992, was the first truly successful edition of Windows and juiced the Redmond juggernaut. Apple's Macintosh System 7.5, released in 1994, was another in a string of versions that lacked key architectural features that the Mac didn't have until Steve Jobs returned and brought with him the code that became OS X.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Successful
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  • Apple