Steve Blank Quotes

The world is run by those who show up not those who wait to be asked.

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• The political world is a dark place. If you want to portray it accurately, authentically, you've got to turn out the lights from time to time.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Time
  • World
  • Political

• Those who have accomplished great things in the world have been, as a rule, bold, aggressive, and self-confident. They dared to step out from the crowd and act in an original way. They were not afraid to be generals.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
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  • Great
  • Step

• If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.

  

  Leighton Paul Walsh
  • World
  • Music
  • Unite

• I would like to spend Christmas in different countries all over the world. I love seeing how different cultures celebrate the holidays in their own unique ways.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • World
  • Love
  • Countries

• When you use the word 'fair' in television, you're already in a fantasy world. Nothing is really fair in television.

  

  Larry Wilmore
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  • Television
  • Fair

• I fell even more deeply in love with Tolkien's legendarium after studying Old English literature at uni, as I got a sense of the historical events and cultures that Tolkien used to create his world. My favourite of his imaginary locations is Lothlorien.

  

  Samantha Shannon
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  • Love
  • English

• Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
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  • Taken

• As people, right now, we're so over-stimulated in this world that I don't know what I'd do in Wyoming. I really don't know what I'd do. I would probably have a heart attack because I'd be so lonely, and I'd actually have to listen to myself think. That's a terrifying prospect for myself, and I'm sure many other people as well.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • World
  • Heart

• I'd spend every summer in Longview on my grandfather's farm. It was a tiny little town divided by a river, which was the segregation line: that side white, this side black. And meanwhile, I lived in Compton - basically, another whole world sealed into 10 square blocks. It's interesting how insular an environment can be.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • World
  • Black
  • Interesting

• If you believe in what you do and you really want to be in music, just stick at it. It's always a learning process. Enjoy it because I think making music is a privilege, really. In an ideal world, it should also always be fun. As much as possible, make it fun.

  

  Kate Bush
  • World
  • Music
  • Believe

• My stance has always been that my issue compared to everything else going on in the world is really, really small. Once you realize that, you can get a lot more out of being a part of the solution.

  

  Zach Anner
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  • Small
  • Solution

• I know my dad always wanted to heal the world, and so I think it would be great to follow in his footsteps.

  

  Paris Jackson
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  • Great
  • Know

• Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • World
  • Medical
  • Doctors

• Mindy is just one of those people... she's just got a hell of a life going for herself. She's just really interesting and interested in the world and the larger things.

  

  Garrett Dillahunt
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• The one thing about The Weeknd is that he's gone between the world of trap music and pop music and blended them together, so it makes it interesting in that way. That's what I like about him.

  

  Babyface
  • World
  • Music
  • Together

• The experience I had seeing Star Wars for the first time was mind-blowing. Eleven is a great age to have your mind blown. I will never forget that feeling of seeing 'Long time ago, in a galaxy, far, far away' fade out. It was the first time a movie made me believe in another world that way.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Time
  • World
  • Great

• The program for this evening is not new. You have seen This entertainment through and through. You've seen your birth, your life and death; you might recall all of the rest - (did you have a good world when you died?) - enough to base a movie on?

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• In a mad world, only the mad are sane!

  

  Akira Kurosawa
  • World
  • Mad

• There are certainly people for whom politics is not a category that helps you understand human existence. In fact, it's kind of a detour into superficiality, and although I disagree with those people, I don't think it's the case that everyone who writes has to write politically or has to write in opposition to the really horrendous things that are going on on a political level in the world today. There are some writers who simply aren't any good at that and really should stay away from it.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• Beauty is not a means, not a way of furthering a thing in the world. It is a result; it belongs to ordering, to form, to aftereffect.

  

  Eudora Welty
  • World
  • Way
  • Mean

• Whether you stay private or go public, after all is said and done, a CEO's job is to create lasting shareholder value.

  

  Jay Samit
  • Done
  • Job
  • Value

• How could 30 years be the blink-of-the-eye it felt? It was the difference between black-and-white footage of the Second World War and David Bowie on 'Top of the Pops' singing 'Life on Mars.'

  

  Ali Smith
  • Life
  • World
  • War

• Look: invest in what you understand, what's foreseeably going to offer real value and returns, not necessarily what's trendy.

  

  Donald Trump, Jr.
  • Real
  • Value

• The world is run by those who show up not those who wait to be asked.

  

  Steve Blank
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