Dan Gilbert Quotes
Keep your debt low, and ask, Can your operational expertise make an impact? Then you're taking away a lot of the risk.
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In a family of all girls, I was always the 'boy' in my mind - the protector, the masculine one. No one would ever have to worry about me.
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We are professionals. We know when we're playing badly, so if you have a poor game, you work in training to put things right so form comes back.
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I'm someone who wears their heart on their sleeve.
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Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.
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Carbon's eastern neighbor on the table, nitrogen, dresses up diamonds in pinks, yellows, oranges, and brownish tints known romantically as 'champagne.'
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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
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I was a little too young to be a hippie.
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Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.
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I think that it's the love of God that brings man into repentance. Once you embrace that love and have that fellowship with God, all those things that you shouldn't be doing will go away.
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Fortunately, I grew up in a family that was grounded. My mother and father knew how to guide my career and look out for my best interests.
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Even though I resigned as Papandreou's adviser early in 2006 and turned into his government's staunchest critic during his mishandling of the post-2009 Greek implosion, my public interventions in the debate on Greece and Europe have carried no whiff of Marxism.
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If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.
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The craziest thing I've ever done to get a guy's attention? I admit I stalked someone. I showed up at a restaurant where I knew the guy worked, and we were actually good friends and had lost touch, and I pretended that I didn't know he worked there.
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The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.
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The public has heard the stereotypical love songs a million times, and they've heard the stereotypical life-or-death songs millions of times. It's good to mix it up a little bit.
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I was about 13 or 14 when I heard Malcolm X's speech 'Message to the Grass Roots.'
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The best founders are extremely thoughtful and have an eye for quality. I don't know if there's any generic advice here that would be helpful. Startup knowledge is a moving target.
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I hate guns.
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To understand something is to be delivered of it.
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Yes, I love to play drums and bass and guitar and piano. Those are the main instruments I play. That is it.
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I quit high school the first day of 10th grade because I felt like I was wasting time.
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Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you'd expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn't hold with such nonsense.
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Keep your debt low, and ask, Can your operational expertise make an impact? Then you're taking away a lot of the risk.
