Chamath Palihapitiya Quotes
If you're trying to get to profitability by lowering costs as a startup then you are in a very precarious and difficult position. You need to grow through profitability.
Quotes to Explore
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I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.
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I think I'm a lot funnier and goofier than people were able to see on 'Dancing With the Stars.'
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
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Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.
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I'm in hotel rooms most of the time, and it can be hard to find a hotel with a nice gym. It was important for me to have a workout I could do in my room.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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There's still is a status-quo group at City Hall who likes things done the old way, behind closed doors.
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On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.
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I am not a fashion freak!
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We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.'
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It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.
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Both Shah Rukh and Aamir have taught me a lot. I used to be their fan. I had seen all their movies. Once I had even taken Aamir's autograph! Then all of a sudden, I was facing the camera with him! The way these two looked after me and saw me through my initial scenes is something I can never forget.
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You have to focus on your dreams, even if they go beyond common sense. How could this young girl from the suburbs of Detroit become a success in New York? It was always that dream.
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I was always more of a Lydia Deeds than a Disney Princess, so anything offbeat like that, I would love to be a part of.
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I love New York, but I have to admit that I feel very English, and I do miss that sense of history that you have everywhere in Britain.
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The increasing frequency of extreme weather events, droughts and floods is in line with what climate scientists have been predicting for decades - and evidence is mounting that what's happening is more severe than predicted, and will get far worse still if we fail to act.
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It is often difficult to definitively link a specific instance of disease to one particular cause, like water pollution. Even when tests show that drinking water is polluted, it can be hard to pinpoint the source of the contamination.
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The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen.
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Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.
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I try to be as ruthless as possible. I ask myself of each sentence, "Is it clear? Is it true? Does it feel good?" And if it's not, then I rewrite it.
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The first task in teaching for creativity in any field is to encourage people to believe in their creative potential and to nurture the confidence to try.
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If you're trying to get to profitability by lowering costs as a startup then you are in a very precarious and difficult position. You need to grow through profitability.
