Nathan Myhrvold Quotes

Making money from enforcing patents is no more wrong than investing in preferred stock.

Nathan Myhrvold

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• To me, it's impolite to go out shopping with no money.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Money
  • Me
  • Shopping

• I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Life
  • Money
  • Know

• Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Life
  • Money
  • Fire

• I'm either enjoying myself or I'm not. And if I'm not enjoying myself, something's gone terribly wrong.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Myself
  • Something
  • Wrong

• Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Life
  • Important
  • Money

• Money coming in says I've made the right marketing decisions.

  

  Adam Osborne
  • Money
  • Marketing
  • Decisions

• It was all about flying round the world, working hard, being on the cover of Vogue, making money. It wasn't fun. It was exhausting, but I was young and convinced I knew best.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • World
  • Money
  • Fun

• Five wives can't all be wrong.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Wrong
  • Five
  • Wives

• I've never seen anyone handling pans in the streets of New York, and if I did I doubt I'd give them money, unless I needed a pan. I do give money to homeless people, whether they ask or no.

  

  Hamish Linklater
  • People
  • Money
  • Doubt

• Being boring is just wrong, isn't it? You wouldn't have got anywhere being boring.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • You
  • Wrong
  • Boring

• Clearly, children's charities struggle to find private sources of money to sustain their benevolent programs.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • Children
  • Money
  • Struggle

• When I was 28, I made this film called 'Drinking Buddies' that I starred in and produced, and we improvised the entire thing, and it was a complete exercise in freedom of expression in making something for only the purpose of making it, not for recognition or money or anything else, and it's still my favorite thing I've ever done.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Money
  • Done
  • Freedom

• Money is a bubble that never pops. It's a consensus hallucination.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Money
  • Never
  • Bubble

• People said I couldn't gig, and I proved them wrong.

  

  Kate Bush
  • People
  • Said
  • Wrong

• The techniques of being an Internet visionary are just like those of lower-tech fortunetellers through the ages. A technological visionary must tell people what they want to hear, because your company's stock won't rise if you spout an unpopular vision to analysts.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Vision
  • Internet

• Why do women get paid less money? It doesn't make any sense.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Women
  • Money
  • Why

• Our philosophy is you need to give nonprofit money for health, nutrition, education, culture, and sports.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Money
  • Culture
  • Education

• I don't do very much for beauty. I use very simple things on my skin. I haven't got time. I would always get facials and then come home laden with product, and pay a lot of money and never use it. Anyway, one day a dermatologist told me to use Cetaphil to clean my face and as a moisturizer, and that's what I do.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Time
  • Money
  • Home

• One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Life
  • Money
  • Poor

• Do not forget, do not ever forget, that you have promised me to use the money to make yourself an honest man.' Valjean, who did not recall having made any promise, was silent. The bishop had spoken the words slowly and deliberately. He concluded with a solemn emphasis: Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to what is evil but to what is good. I have bought your soul to save it from black thoughts and the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Money
  • Forget
  • Emphasis

• A great many things determine how people live, and money is not at the top of the list. Choices are always available. What you choose will depend on how you see things: yourself, your work, your right to express taste and desire and personality, your understanding of the love of God as expressed in His creation and order and harmony.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Money
  • Desire
  • Choices

• All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind.

  

  George Berkeley
  • World
  • Mind
  • Earth

• I'm living proof you can excel regardless of where you come from.

  

  Keith Sweat

• Making money from enforcing patents is no more wrong than investing in preferred stock.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Money
  • Wrong
  • Stock