Andrew Yan Quotes

The problems that you see startups tackling are dramatically different in different cities. Silicon Valley is unlikely to produce the same set of companies as New York or Cleveland because the region has a different set of strengths and defining institutions.

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• Because I was poor I had one special advantage. When you are poor, and basic survival is your concern, you have no alternative but to be an entrepreneur. You must take action to survive just as you must take action to seize an opportunity.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Opportunity
  • Action
  • Survival

• I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Work
  • Want
  • Capitalism

• Scoring the first 10 in history was a big deal, but the fact that even an electronic scoreboard could not figure out how to put out a score, it made the story more historic.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • History
  • Story
  • First

• Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Knowledge

• War is the greatest failure of mankind.

  

  Aaron Huey
  • War
  • Failure
  • Greatest

• I'm an artist at heart.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Heart
  • Artist

• I moved to New York when I was 21 and worked between 40 and 70 hours a week. Then I invested it all. It was really just a hustle. But I was kind of raised to work like that, so to me, it seemed very normal and natural.

  

  Verite
  • Work
  • New York
  • Week

• Realizing full well that fine condition and confidence will not in themselves make a champion, it is my belief, however, that they are essential factors.

  

  Major Taylor
  • Confidence
  • Belief
  • Champion

• When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Glasses
  • Teeth
  • Braces

• Anything that happens in your life was meant to happen. It is your destiny. I was destined to have the life I have now, and I can't have any regrets.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Life
  • Destiny
  • Regrets

• Women are sacred.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Women
  • Sacred
  • Women Are

• I like fashion, but I love, love, love music and film; they are my two passions. I would love to pursue my acting and my love of music more than anything.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Music
  • Like
  • Passions

• You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Life
  • You
  • Attitude

• A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.

  

  Manfred Eigen
  • Path
  • Birth
  • Theory

• As athletes, we all have egos, we all think we can help, and when you're not given that chance, it's hard to watch.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Help
  • Think
  • Chance

• I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. We've got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.

  

  Quentin Bryce
  • Life
  • Work
  • Country

• Awards are not the only markers of success; I don't judge myself just based on them. I believe that each cinema-goer has his own mental trophies.

  

  Fan Bingbing
  • Believe
  • Success
  • Myself

• Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Always
  • Masses
  • Psychic

• I am who I am, doing what I came to do, acting upon you like a drug or chisel to remind you of your me-ness as I discover you in myself.

  

  Audre Lorde
  • Drug

• You must not do, you must not even try to do, the will of the Father unless you are prepared to 'know of the doctrine'.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Father

• I enjoy a good fight, and always have, and really just said to myself, 'Look, at the end of my term, it'll be 16 years as attorney general, and I'm ready for new challenges. I'm ready to use my skills in a different way to continue to help people.'

  

  Lisa Madigan
  • People
  • Good
  • Different

• Anyone who's watched 'The Hunger Games', or female archers, knows that that is an absolutely physiologically ridiculous idea.

  

  Adrienne Mayor

• The problems that you see startups tackling are dramatically different in different cities. Silicon Valley is unlikely to produce the same set of companies as New York or Cleveland because the region has a different set of strengths and defining institutions.

  

  Andrew Yan
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