Safra A. Catz Quotes

I teach at the Stanford Business School, and about half of my students are foreign, many of whom, I hope, will stay and build businesses in U.S. But I must tell you that they also have opportunities to come back to India and start great companies and operations.

Safra A. Catz

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• I don't know if I'm selfless - I still want to make a great record. I want to make a hit record. I want to tour; that's not completely selfless. But the truth is I'm not interested in people coming to my show for me as much as I am for them coming to my show for themselves. That's always been how I am.

  

  Lady Gaga
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• This is what we get paid to do, is to bring it every week, and I hope the guys would say I bring it every week. I mean, I love this game, and I bring energy.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
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• Dallas is a great city, and it's worth fighting for.

  

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• Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

  

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• I wasn't bad at school, but I was never a bookworm.

  

  Idris Elba
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• It's populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
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• Putting on my legs is like putting on my shoes. I understand that's how some people might think differently, but I hope that in London, their perceptions open up.

  

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• I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed - no, I didn't fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.

  

  Nathan Fillion
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• People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

  

  Isaac Asimov
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• I get great pleasure from stuffed foods, from an apple strudel to a vegetable samosa, from a whole roasted bird with a sweet and savoury stuffing to a vine leaf filled with rice and spices.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
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• My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.

  

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• Making $30,000 on my first business deal was exciting, but not as exciting as the sudden knowledge that I did not have to work for anyone again.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
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• I've always worn earplugs, but I'm sure my hearing's not great.

  

  J Mascis
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• My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
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• Half of the great comedians I've had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made my customers shriek were not only not funny to me, but I couldn't understand why they were funny to anybody.

  

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• Sports are a great place to show that equality can happen.

  

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• My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.

  

  Ted Turner
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• The great thing about vinyl is that if you wanted to get a decent-sounding cut, you could really only have 20 minutes max on each side.

  

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• The signals from the monetary analysis confirm the picture of subdued underlying price pressures in the euro area over the medium term.

  

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• I seek the presidency because I believe deeply in the American promise and can no longer accept the diminishing of that promise.

  

  George McGovern
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• Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.

  

  Tamae Watanabe
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• The Taiwanese are big on tea. I think it's nice to slow down a bit. It's very much a custom.

  

  Jason Wu
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• I teach at the Stanford Business School, and about half of my students are foreign, many of whom, I hope, will stay and build businesses in U.S. But I must tell you that they also have opportunities to come back to India and start great companies and operations.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Great
  • School
  • Business