Chamath Palihapitiya Quotes

The half-life of companies is shrinking. So in the same ease in which you can start a company today to disrupt an incumbent, you have to also realize that somebody will do that to you as well just as easily. So if you're not just going to get on top but stay on top, that will require a real prepared mind across many companies.

Chamath Palihapitiya

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• My government has the challenge of addressing the issue of gas. The issue of gas cannot be addressed today without the participation of all Bolivians alike.

  

  Carlos Mesa
  • Today
  • Government
  • Challenge

• You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Work
  • Girl
  • Yourself

• I have more friends in New York than Paris.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Friends
  • New
  • New York

• The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Business
  • Me
  • Goal

• I often reread books I have written.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Books
  • Written
  • Often

• Men like me, who merely wish to establish political freedom, will in such circumstances lose all their influence, and others will get influence who may become dangerous to all established interests whatsoever.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Men
  • May
  • Political

• There is an important idea in psychology: The 'just world theory,' which says that it is very important for us to convince ourselves that the world is just and things happen for a reason. That there is some elemental fairness in everything, which creates the illusion of justice.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • World
  • Important
  • Justice

• When you're growing up, you realize you've got a lot of heavy things on your shoulders.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can be affected by belief, the whims of the unseen, harsh language. And it is not. Supposed. To make. Sense. In fact, I think it's coolest when it doesn't.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Think
  • Language
  • Magic

• There are no large-scale original musicals being made right now. They're all Broadway adaptations and jukebox musicals or catalog musicals, and they just don't interest me as much.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Right
  • Interest
  • Broadway

• The importance of creativity in our country is greatly misunderstood.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Country
  • Creativity

• Otherwise, to be a movie star, it's a lot of compromise and also a lot of headaches. You can't do what you want. You become a prisoner of your fame. This happened to me in France and I don't want it.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Want
  • Fame
  • Compromise

• I thought art was a verb, rather than a noun.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Art
  • Thought
  • Rather

• Like everyone else, I want to go on dancing forever, but I know the day is going to come when I will have to be doing something else.

  

  Karen Kain
  • Want
  • Day
  • Forever

• Every film is hard work, and a few lucky people do get Oscars for what they do, and it's recognition for all that hard work on a certain level. If you didn't do the hard work, you wouldn't be standing there. On the other hand, people do a lot of hard work and don't get Oscars, so it's a mixture of glory and injustice at the same time.

  

  Walter Murch
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• Nothing, nothing justifies terrorism.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • Nothing
  • Terrorism

• The cause of war is preparation for war.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • War
  • Preparation

• This is the central illusion in life: that randomness is a risk, that it is a bad thing ...

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Risk

• I guess some of today's programming has rubbed off on me because I find myself having to set time around for touring, putting that together and then setting time around for recording.

  

  Bootsy Collins
  • Time
  • Together
  • Today

• The rise of digital technologies has eroded boundaries: Anyone can participate, start a business, and reach a global audience.

  

  David Cohen
  • Business

• We were a family that made our Halloween costumes. Or, more accurately, my mother made them. She took no suggestions or advice. Halloween costumes were her territory. She was the brain behind my brother's winning girl costume, stuffing her own bra with newspapers for him to wear under a cashmere sweater and smearing red lipstick on his lips.

  

  Ann Hood
  • Family
  • She
  • Mother

• Dialogue is the place that books are most alive and forge the most direct connection with readers. It is also where we as writers discover our characters and allow them to become real.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Real
  • Place
  • Connection

• The half-life of companies is shrinking. So in the same ease in which you can start a company today to disrupt an incumbent, you have to also realize that somebody will do that to you as well just as easily. So if you're not just going to get on top but stay on top, that will require a real prepared mind across many companies.

  

  Chamath Palihapitiya
  • Mind
  • Real
  • Today