Wil Shipley Quotes
The measure of a man cannot be whether he ever makes mistakes, because he will make mistakes. It's what he does in response to his mistakes. The same is true of companies. We have to apologize, we have to fix the problem, and we have to learn from our mistakes.
Quotes to Explore
-
Having a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a genius, and having less than a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a fool.
-
I mean, I was first offered Princess Astra.
-
When we first started our internet company, 'China Pages', in 1995, and we were just making home pages for a lot of Chinese companies. We went to the big owners, the big companies, and they didn't want to do it. We go to state-owned companies, and they didn't want to do it. Only the small and medium companies really want to do it.
-
When I was very young I knew that I wanted to be in show business. I knew that I wanted to be an entertainer.
-
Beaujolais is so underrated.
-
My approach as an actor has always been the same, in that the greatest gift that you're ever going to have is your imagination because you're not going to have all life experiences. So you draw on things that are sort of close to it but you spend your time expanding on it or drawing something specific on whatever your situation is.
-
My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'
-
Let me be very honest and just say that if any airline would let me take the violin and the laptop on board I would fly that airline all the time.
-
God has given us all wonderful unique gifts and talents to use to glorify and celebrate Him.
-
I knew what I wanted to do in sport from the age of nine.
-
Well, guys are better at mechanical stuff and women are better at emotional stuff.
-
Here's the thing about Apple technology: once you own a piece, you want to use it.
-
I am mean; I'm nasty at times. I don't feel like talking to people at times. When I am in a bad mood and have had a really awful day, don't come in my face because I am not tolerant and I am not a goddess; I can't handle it after a point. I am going to get up, and I am going to scream, and I am going to say bad things to you.
-
The man who raised me is black. Culturally, he made me who I am. He was a theatre director, so he also guided me artistically.
-
We want to be true to ourselves, and honest to the fans and to ourselves.
-
If someone is sad, they put on a song, or if someone wants to rock out, and they want to get into a good mood, they put on music. Just being able to be a part of something like that I feel like was my ultimate push to do music.
-
Neutrino physics is largely an art of learning a great deal by observing nothing.
-
There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.
-
I have a harder time finding somebody. The problem is we were growing professionally during the years most people were concentrating on being a person.
-
Rigor is not a substitute for imagination.
-
The measure of a man cannot be whether he ever makes mistakes, because he will make mistakes. It's what he does in response to his mistakes. The same is true of companies. We have to apologize, we have to fix the problem, and we have to learn from our mistakes.
