Max Levchin Quotes
You can't get married to any one particular plan. That is the biggest lesson I learned at PayPal.
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I would love to be a singer if I had the talent for it. I'd love to be a graphic designer if I had the talent for it. Those are things I've always just admired - the work of other artists.
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I don't say I never use Facebook, but I often think about closing my account.
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I'm just being me on Instagram, and that's what I love about it. It's definitely personal, and it's, like, no one in my team would ever get my password for my Instagram. Like, that's a no-no.
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I'm still raising kids myself, so I don't feel like a grandpa.
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I'm not cool - quite the opposite. I'm a real geek.
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The whole world is determined by trade - which is really the blood of the world. The driving force is everyone's desire to have a better life. How? By consuming. For countries, the 'Holy Grail' is economic growth.
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We wanted to take as much time and effort making the video as we did the song.
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Perhaps the greatest utopia would be if we could all realize that no utopia is possible; no place to run, no place to hide, just take care of business here and now.
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I just want to keep acting and better my craft and see how far it goes.
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My mother died when I was young, and I was filming all the time. I was all over the place. Acting was the one constant.
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When you know something in your heart, you better not be quiet about it. You better speak out about it.
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In one year I travelled 450,000 miles by air.
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I've been very, very careful to tell people what I am qualified to talk about and what I'm not qualified to talk about.
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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.
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I've never really been met with indifference, where they say, 'Who cares?' I think that's what good art is supposed to do. It's not supposed to make you feel good about your own prejudices and your own values; it's supposed to open you up in some way and get you outraged or make you happy or make you sad or whatever it's going to do.
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'My God, oh my God,' he said. 'Six hundred men.'
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Real war was the thousands of Chinese refugees dying of cholera in the sealed stockades at Pootung, and the bloody heads of Communist soldiers mounted on pikes along the Bund. In a real war no one knew which side he was on, and there were no flags or commentators or winners. In a real war there were no enemies.
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As a young boy growing up in rural India, most of what I knew of the world was what I could see around me. But each night, I would look at the Moon - it was impossibly far away, yet it held a special attraction because it allowed me to dream beyond my village and country, and think about the rest of the world and space.
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I don't speak up if I'm working. As a model, no one pays me for my opinion. I want to wear whatever will make a great photo, whether I like it or not. But if the shoes are too small, I will complain!
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Not only in our league, but I think they have to be one of best backcourts in college basketball.
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Uniformity is the friend of scalability.
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The thousands of possible lives that used to spread out in front of me have snapped shut into one, and all I get is what I've got. It's time to pass on the possibilities, all those deliciously half-open doors, to my children, and drive them to the airports, and wish them bon voyage.
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You can't get married to any one particular plan. That is the biggest lesson I learned at PayPal.
