John Collison Quotes

Advertising obviously helps with awareness, but if you look at some of the most successful companies, they're actually not generally ad-driven when it comes to customer adoption.

John Collison

• Adoption

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Job
  • Environment
  • Growth

• It's more like can I build a group of characters and can I tell some universal truths that feel real and aren't formulaic in the spirit of filmmakers gone by who've told American stories that were personal and universal as well.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Real
  • American
  • Group

• You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Party
  • Always
  • Leave

• I can make them voting machines sing Home Sweet Home.

  

  Earl Long
  • Home
  • Sweet
  • Voting

• When people ask me exactly how much time I spend in each country, I always tell them I have no idea.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • People
  • Time
  • Country

• We've gotten tremendous support. Everybody now understands how critical it is to help small businesses get out of this recession and into recovery.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Help
  • Small
  • Support

• I was worried people would laugh at me when I started to talk the language, but they were just pleasantly surprised that I could. The sense of humour here is great – once I could have a giggle, I settled down.

  

  Parminder Nagra
  • People
  • Laugh
  • Surprised

• I think it's the broadest source of dissatisfaction amongst Republicans, out-of-control spending.

  

  Pat Toomey
  • Think
  • Control
  • I Think

• Anything that is profoundly energy-shifting - like having a child - is fodder for creative thought. So for me, I welcome it and look straight into it as something to learn from.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Energy
  • Thought
  • Child

• L'amour, c'est l'espace et le temps rendus sensibles au coeur.

  

  Marcel Proust

• If a nation cannot face its past, it has no future.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Future
  • Past

• The process of being filmed was, I found, peculiar but not discomfiting. At 13, you are malleable, adaptable, better able to take the unusual in your stride.

  

  James Lovegrove

• My feeling is that you should try to do the things you enjoy most in life. I chose acting as a career because I enjoyed it then as I do now. The only question for me then was, 'Can I make a living at it?'

  

  Bradford Dillman
  • Life
  • Career
  • Feeling

• A large family makes you accept sharing your parents.

  

  Martha Reeves
  • Family
  • Parents

• God uses singers in a mighty way, and I am grateful.

  

  Martha Reeves
  • God

• I'm Jewish, I can say it. We're storytellers. We were the moneylenders... Therefore we tell great tales to get what we need. I love Jewish men. They make the best husbands.

  

  Patti Stanger
  • Great
  • Men

• I'm very close to my sisters.

  

  Bill Hader

• Being a rock & roll star has become as legitimate a career option as being an astronaut or a policeman or a fireman.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Career
  • Rock
  • Star

• My mantra is: 'Good design accelerates the adoption of new ideas.'

  

  Yves Behar
  • Good
  • Ideas
  • Design

• The best assurance any one can have of his interest in God, is doubtless the conformity of his soul to Him. When our heart is once turned into a conformity with the mind of God. when we feel our will conformed to His will, we shall then presently perceive a spirit of adoption within ourselves, teaching us to say, 'Abba, Father.'

  

  Ralph Cudworth
  • God
  • Mind
  • Heart

• There are young people having babies every day that cannot possibly take care of them, and, as people who believe that every life is beautiful, we need to make them aware of another choice - to give that beautiful life up for adoption.

  

  John Schneider
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I look at the Christian Bale movies, the 'Batman' films, and that shows you that superhero movies don't just have to be about men in tights.

  

  James McAvoy
  • Men
  • Christian
  • Superhero

• Hey, I'm a girl, and we like to play dress-up.

  

  Charlize Theron
  • Up
  • Girl

• Advertising obviously helps with awareness, but if you look at some of the most successful companies, they're actually not generally ad-driven when it comes to customer adoption.

  

  John Collison
  • Adoption