Sean Parker Quotes

If I were worried about my reputation, I wouldn't do anything with start-ups

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• I'm stingy and I'm proud of the reputation.

  

  Ingvar Kamprad
  • Proud
  • Reputation
  • Stingy

• My main motivation is not to get bored. I'm just hoping I get a vaguely maverick reputation.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Bored
  • motivation
  • Just

• Now, my father Matthias was not only eminent on account of is nobility, but had a higher commendation on account of his righteousness, and was in great reputation in Jerusalem, the greatest city we have.

  

  Flavius Josephus
  • Great
  • Father
  • City

• In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Way
  • Become
  • Reputation

• Authentic power is the real deal. You can't inherit it, buy it, or win it. You also can't lose it. You don't need to build your body, reputation, wealth, or charisma to get it.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Real
  • Power
  • Win

• It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Think
  • Years
  • Reputation

• A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Years
  • Reputation
  • They Say

• Among physicists and chemists, cold fusion - nuclear fusion at close to room temperature - enjoys a reputation about on par with creationism.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Cold
  • Reputation
  • Room

• I have the reputation of being easygoing. But inside, I'm like nails. I will kill.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Like
  • Reputation
  • Inside

• Me, my literary reputation is mostly abroad, but I am anchored here in New York. I can't think of any other place I'd rather die than here.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Die
  • New York
  • Reputation

• I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • History
  • Reputation

• The prevailing structures of personal reputation and career advancement mean the biggest rewards often follow the flashiest work, not the best.

  

  Randy Schekman
  • Work
  • Career
  • Best

• If you are worried about the risk to your reputation, you don't launch a telecoms firm in an aggressive way.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Way
  • Risk
  • Reputation

• I first knew Laurie Lewis by her considerable reputation as a fiddle player and a writer of songs. When an opportunity came along to sing with her I seized it. Getting to know her as a singer and a person has been pure pleasure. Her voice is a rare combination of grit and grace, strength and delicacy. Her stories are always true.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • True
  • Opportunity
  • Player

• Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Two
  • Reputation
  • Dues

• Your mother told you all that I could give you was a reputation.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Mother
  • Give
  • Reputation

• Reputation will become an even more important currency in the future.

  

  Kabir Sehgal
  • Important
  • Future
  • Reputation

• Character lives in a man, reputation outside of him.

  

  J. G. Holland
  • Men
  • Character
  • Reputation

• From the very beginning, all of my films have divided the critics. Some have thought them wonderful, and others have found very little good to say. But subsequent critical opinion has always resulted in a very remarkable shift to the favorable. In one instance, the same critic who originally rapped the film has several years later put it on an all-time best list. But of course, the lasting and ultimately most important reputation of a film is not based on reviews, but on what, if anything, people say about it over the years, and on how much affection for it they have.

  

  Stanley Kubrick
  • Important
  • Opinion
  • Film

• All my cousins steal things. They're just a bunch of thieves. My whole family is like that. You put something down for a second, and they steal it. You never see it again.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Family
  • Down
  • Cousins

• The body they may kill: God’s truth abideth still, His Kingdom is forever.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Truth
  • Kill
  • Kingdom

• I knew I was destined to do a solo album, but when I did that first album in 1978, I had no idea it was going to be that well received.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Idea
  • First
  • No Idea

• If I were worried about my reputation, I wouldn't do anything with start-ups

  

  Sean Parker
  • Reputation
  • Startups