Joe Lonsdale Quotes
David and Ellen Siminoff are legends in Silicon Valley - they are two of the most influential mentors to top executives and leaders behind the scenes, with long track records of success.
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When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.
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Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.
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I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.
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When I first met Mandela, we did not discuss anything of substance; we just felt each other out. He spent a long time expressing his admiration for the Boer generals and how ingenious they were during the Anglo-Boer war.
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Throughout his long career, Washington earned the adulation not merely of ordinary people but of the other luminaries whom we now hail as 'founding fathers.'
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We want to be on the edge of technology all of the time. We think long-term.
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That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
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As long as the plots keep arriving from outer space, I'll go on with my virgins.
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I've been in the public eye so long, I can't remember how it was when it was different - from my mid-20s onwards, when my career started to blossom and I became an international, world cups and things.
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In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
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It is high time that the Palestinian people restore their freedom and independence. It is high time that the decades, the long decades of suffering and pain would stop.
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Always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you.
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No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.
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Indians have very good engineering capabilities, and that is why, if an industry focuses on innovation, you will have a far greater chance of success, rather than the model which is based on just being a production machine.
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As governor, I enjoy the opportunity to talk about Utah's measurable business success.
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Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.
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I'm very much over my hair. If it was up to me I'd have cut it a long time ago.
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My brain is so anxiety-prone, like a pinball machine. If I don't get up in the morning and focus my thinking, my breathing, and my being for about 12 minutes, I'm just a screwball all day long.
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To write long pieces - or not even long pieces - to write stuff like the columns of Red Smith and people like that - they're different then what it is today. Everything today is based on x's and o's. Inside baseball, it's all, 'Who's gonna win?' or you're comparing things - it's not as thoughtful as it used to be.
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I'm much more interested in living specific experiences in films.
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Frank Capra's grandson was a second Assistant Director on 'Christmas Vacation.'
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Some books inspire one to read, and some inspire one to write; for selfish reasons, I'm always looking for the latter.
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I couldn't sleep knowing I was going to leave my Miami. It's always going to be my home, but it's not the same.
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David and Ellen Siminoff are legends in Silicon Valley - they are two of the most influential mentors to top executives and leaders behind the scenes, with long track records of success.
