Aneel Bhusri Quotes
I hired a guy named David Sze to do consumer investing at Greylock. And he went on to invest in Facebook and LinkedIn. So I guess I did something right.
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When a man interrupts a woman in mid-sentence, it reveals much about him. First, it shows he hasn't been listening to what she is saying, and secondly, it indicates that he doesn't want to listen to what she will say. Her views are not important.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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Sometimes what I think what the news is missing is the human element, the connection - the moment that you look into a little girl's eyes or a father who has just left his family and risked everything just to try and survive.
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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
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Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.
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Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
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It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.
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I think for a long time I wasn't really out to myself growing up in Omaha, Neb., to a Catholic conservative family. It took me a while to come out to myself, and not long after that, I came out to them. I think that it really couldn't have been a better experience. They were all immediately supportive.
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There is no better way to bring people together than with desserts.
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I have all sorts of problems and feel discouraged.
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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I don't rehearse with my actors... the first rehearsal is the first time we turn the camera on... Sydney Pollack never rehearsed his actors, and I found out that's allowed... so you film reactions; you don't create them.
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The music business is a crazy game, especially for somebody like me who is really a purist about the art. Trying to balance the pressures of commercialism, it's a tightrope. It's a fine line between sticking to your guns and insanity.
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it.
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Even though my shoes are different from Ferragamo's aesthetic, which is more classic, I learned the importance of fit and quality. We were making shoes like they used to, by hand, and I carried that with me.
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But everything of value about me is in my books.
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I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.
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Don't allow people to suck up all your time with their questions or problems. Learn to say 'no' more often.
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People dance and we have a lot of music and... this might be the closet I get for a while.
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Becoming an authority in your industry can be a great way to promote your business and help you better serve your clients.
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Every conversation we have as a band is about gender in some way, and it's been like that from the beginning.
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She had been dragged in the most humiliating of all dusts, the dust reserved for older women who let themselves be approached, on amorous lines, by boys... It had all been pure vanity, all just a wish, in these waning days of hers, still to feel power, still to have the assurance of her beauty and its effects.
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I hired a guy named David Sze to do consumer investing at Greylock. And he went on to invest in Facebook and LinkedIn. So I guess I did something right.
