Max Levchin Quotes
I actually think Facebook made it their business to be close with all of the app developers. They couldn't have done more.
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He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
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Nearly every president in the past 100 years has declared national monuments, from Teddy Roosevelt creating the Grand Canyon National Monument to George W. Bush preserving 10 islands and 140,000 square miles of ocean waters in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
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Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.
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I think it must be so hard to start your career with everyone going on about how gorgeous you are. To be in that bracket must be so pressurised.
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I have five horses. My first was a professional jumper named Santos. I got him when I was 18.
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I remember 'Hannah Montana' came out, and I was so depressed, I started crying because I was like, 'I want to do that.'
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These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school.
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People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'
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Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.
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All wisdom does not reside in Delhi.
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I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render.
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The more desperate you are, the more mistakes you make.
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We can and must turn this page if we are friends and are prepared to look one another in the eye.
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Wind and other clean, renewable energy will help end our reliance on fossil fuels and combat the severe threat that climate change poses to humans and wildlife alike.
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The long-term value proposition for cellphone companies isn't just voice conversation - it's transfer of data.
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All of the great writers whom I admire have died. I guess the most recent one would be Marquez.
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As women, we are constantly criticising and judging ourselves in terms of our body, how we dress, what profession we take up, how we fare in that. Indian women are gifted with certain body types and features, which is healthy, and we should accept that.
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Joe Jackson was a tragic figure. He was a serene country boy who signed a confession he couldn't read. He was illiterate.
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I consider myself fortunate to have grown up in Brooklyn. It's what gave me my drive to succeed, the upward mobility I've been after my whole life.
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I'd make a bad preacher.
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I consider Apple to be very closed. Let's say you have a book business, and you are charging 5 to 7 percent gross margins; you can't exist in an Apple world because they want 30 percent, and they don't care that you only have 7 percent to play with.
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Business first; pleasure afterwards.
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I actually think Facebook made it their business to be close with all of the app developers. They couldn't have done more.
