Safra A. Catz Quotes
I come from Wall Street, and you'll never see me do a PowerPoint because I'm all about Excel spreadsheets. If it's not in the numbers, I don't care how strategic it is; it doesn't play out.
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The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.
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The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism.
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As a person, I'm polite - I want to please.
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I learned that despite having years and years of experience in math and computer science and so on, I didn't really know how to code until I formed a company.
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I just like to stay a little quiet and just do my own thing. If I win a little more, I think I'll get a little bit more attention.
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The Reserve Bank cannot just exist; its ability to say 'no' has to be protected.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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I've been around - having gone to Princeton, and I went to Oxford after that - some pretty fancy characters in my life. And they're just as nutty as the rest of us - sometimes worse.
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The tech industry - and, more specifically, Silicon Valley - continues to stumble forward in earnest about how few women are represented in its top ranks of management and on its boards.
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People are making judgements about Russian people based on me. This is why I never allow myself any aggression towards my opponent.
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I moved to New York - I attended NYU, did a BFA in Acting at NYU. I was really into hip-hop, so I started battling, like '8 Mile.' I used to rap battle.
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The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
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A friend is someone who will allow me to be a really bad friend and not hold it against me.
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Rey is so strong. She's cool and smart and she can look after herself. Young girls can look at her and know that they can wear trousers if they want to. That they don't have to show off their bodies.
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I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly.
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I'm competing with myself first, as my aim is to improve my performance in every film.
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One thing I really hate is experience. Experience for me doesn't work. Everybody's talking about experience this, experience that.
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The day you stop learning and creating must be the most boring day.
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The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.
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On the actual competition days, you get about three or four hours of physical exertion - between an hour-long warm-up, recovery in-between runs, the training runs, and then the runs themselves.
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Big doors swing on little hinges.
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We're looking for people out there who have demonstrated that they are leaders, have track records of achievement, and want to be part of a force... of a much larger force of determined people who want to bring about, ultimately, institutional change.
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When I ran for Presidency of the United States, I knew that this country faced serious challenges, but I could not realize - nor could any man realize who does not bear the burdens of this office - how heavy and constant would be those burdens.
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I come from Wall Street, and you'll never see me do a PowerPoint because I'm all about Excel spreadsheets. If it's not in the numbers, I don't care how strategic it is; it doesn't play out.
