Michael Arrington Quotes
The payouts for starting a business are just terrible when you account for risk. A tiny minority of entrepreneurs ever get rich. And the majority of entrepreneurs would probably make far more money, and have more stable personal relationships, if they just worked for someone else.
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No one can be an artist without a rich inner life.
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My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.
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I think there's a difference between a gamble and a calculated risk.
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Shame on me if I don't try to do more with what I have. It would be... a terrible thing to waste this opportunity to try to make a difference.
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An excellent habit to cultivate is the analytical study of the King James Bible. For simple yet rich and forceful English, this masterly production is hard to equal; and even though its Saxon vocabulary and poetic rhythm be unsuited to general composition, it is an invaluable model for writers on quaint or imaginative themes.
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The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected.
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In business, you try to minimise risk.
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Fresh egg pasta is traditionally served in the north of Italy with butter, cream and rich meat sauces, whereas dried pasta is more at home with the tomato- and olive oil-based ones of the south.
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I love the business of business; I love the risk raking.
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Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
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The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
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If you walk away I'll walk awayfirst tell me which road you will takeI don't want to risk our paths crossing somedayso you walk that way I'll walk this way
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An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.
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Sponsorship involves putting your own political capital at risk, so they are going to help that person to succeed. Women get promoted; they don't get sponsored. Women know they are on their own if they get that promotion.
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One way to mitigate our risk is to invest in companies with understandable business models.
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At the risk of being old-fartish, I like old-school wines that taste the way the winemaker intended, as opposed to organic and untreated ones with more bottle variation. If I want to take a risk, I'll go bungee-jumping.
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An entrepreneur, whether man or woman, has to be willing to take help, whether financial or technical, to grow his or her business.
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Chris got through about 80 percent of the session today, but his hamstring just isn't right, so we won't risk him.
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Egalitarians create the most dangerous inequality of all - inequality of power. Allowing politicians to determine what all other human beings will be allowed to earn is one of the most reckless gambles imaginable. Like the income tax, it may start off being applied only to the rich but it will inevitably reach us all.
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I felt a variation of the fear that a lot of gay people have, that their families will reject them. I thought if I were to come out to the world then I would risk losing them.
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It is a real piece of art if you can make a waltz sound like it is the easiest piece of music to play, because it's really not.
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Blessed is he who has a soul, blessed is he who has none, but woe and grief to him who has it in embryo.
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All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America.
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The payouts for starting a business are just terrible when you account for risk. A tiny minority of entrepreneurs ever get rich. And the majority of entrepreneurs would probably make far more money, and have more stable personal relationships, if they just worked for someone else.
