Paul Graham Quotes

Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as 'suits'.

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• I am in a traditional financial services business - but we at Fidelity can see that the evolution of technology is setting our industry up for disruption. What if this technology could do for the transfer of value what the Internet did for the transfer of information?

  

  Abigail Johnson
  • Up
  • Business
  • Technology

• Business is a battlefield. You need to be able to go to battle with your team members. Like the military. Know them, trust them, and know who you're working with.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Business
  • Team
  • Trust

• People must be protected from prejudice against their person. But people cannot be protected from prejudice against their ideas - because otherwise we're all done.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Done
  • Ideas

• You know once you get in the business you know what you're getting into.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Business
  • You
  • Know

• Realize that the game of life is the game of, to some extent, being taken advantage of by people who make a science of it. Whether they are in government or personal life or in business, they're everywhere.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • People
  • Life
  • Business

• I'm a lobbyist and had a career lobbying. The guy who gets elected or the lady who gets elected president of the United States will immediately be lobbying. They would be advocating to the Congress, they'll be lobbying our allies and our adversaries overseas. They'll be asking the business community and labor unions.

  

  Haley Barbour
  • Business
  • Guy
  • Career

• I love design in general, the creativity. Whether it is golf courses, my apparel line, ads we do or our business with AriZona, design is fun.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Business
  • Fun
  • Design

• I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Business
  • Proud
  • Individual

• When I first came to the Bay area, I worked in Silicon Valley in the early to mid-'90s, and I think what mattered then was our ability as designers to create a vision around people's ideas.

  

  Yves Behar
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Vision

• Acting, to me, has been many things: It's a business, and it's a craft, and it's a political act - it's whatever adjective is most applicable.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Business
  • Political
  • Acting

• Touring is really a pretty lonely business.

  

  Eddy Arnold
  • Business
  • Pretty
  • Lonely

• We live in a multi-cultural society far more open to international ideas. If you'd told me 20 years ago I'd drive through Bury and see someone sitting outside a cafe drinking a latte, I'd have laughed. In fact, I wouldn't have even known what a latte was.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Live
  • Society
  • Me

• We can find a great sector or business, but we're investing so early that unless there's this tenacious grit, determination, resourcefulness, ability to evolve, it won't work.

  

  Dan Levitan
  • Work
  • Great
  • Business

• When I returned to the United States after three years of World War II service, my total assets consisted of one wife, one small daughter, $276 in the bank, and an idea. The idea was for an export business to supply items badly needed everywhere in Europe.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • World
  • Business
  • War

• I did grow up in Los Angeles. I actually didn't start acting until I was sixteen, so I was very removed from the Hollywood scene. I had always been in my school plays, but my mom and dad wanted to keep me out of the business until I was old enough to know who I was and not let anyone change me.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Up
  • School
  • Business

• Making art, good art, is always a struggle. It can make you happy when you pull it off. There's no better feeling. It's beauteous. But it's always about hard work and inspiration and sweat and good ideas.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Work
  • Art
  • Feeling

• The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • People
  • Art
  • Business

• There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.

  

  Adam Duritz Matt Malley
  • People
  • Music
  • Money

• Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Light
  • Eyes
  • Ideas

• I think publishing's strength is also its weakness. It's got such a rich and celebrated history as an industry. For the most part, publishing people are incredibly creative, business is done based on the strength of relationships, and the product being peddled is books.

  

  Jennifer Gilmore
  • People
  • Done
  • Business

• I feel, as an adult, I'm very similar to how I was as a pre-teen. Maybe it's a case of arrested development, but I feel like it's easy to slip back into those shoes, and I feel like if we were all magically transported back to our middle school years, we'd all act like we did in middle school.

  

  Jeff Kinney
  • School
  • Shoes
  • Teen

• I think this journal will be disadvantageous for me, for I spend my time now like a spider spinning my own entrails.

  

  Mary Boykin Chesnut
  • Time

• I have never farted in front of a guy I fancied before - I was so embarrassed!.

  

  Rebecca Loos
  • Guy
  • Embarrassed
  • Fancy

• Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as 'suits'.

  

  Paul Graham
  • Business
  • Ideas
  • Suits