Olav Thon Quotes
I don't know how many companies I've bought in my life, and most of them I've bought from children whose father has passed away, and they say, 'Now we're free, would you like to buy it?'
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
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The last thing I wanted was to be with someone who's the same age as me and wanted the limelight, wanted the attention. There's lots of girls out there who do.
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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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You, as an entrepreneur, must make sure the postmoney valuation is a number you can obtain. You don't want too high of a valuation.
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
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It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I love the process of acting, and to turn your passion into a career is the biggest gift.
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I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
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There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
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It was a superb agreement to end a war, but a very bad agreement to make a state. From now on, we have to part company with Dayton and try to build a modern democratic state, for which I have tried to lay the foundations.
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Failing to engage in conflict is a terrible decision, one that puts our temporary comfort and the avoidance of discomfort ahead of the ultimate goal of our organization.
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When you're doing a startup, life is not all roses and rainbows, like you see on Instagram, and killing it.
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I think often the West does not understand the history and the privilege of wearing a hijab. They always think of oppression.
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At times he could be very critical. He didn't like prints on me. He didn't like stripes. He didn't like boldness. He said I was petite and that was taking away from my looks.
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It's a bit naff, but there is something exciting about pulling a bit of pottery out of the ground that's 2,000 years old.
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I'm not the type to sit on the porch and watch life go by.
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Ethereum may make monetary policy decisions like, 'Let's do 1% inflation to support the ongoing development of the Ethereum protocol.' A token built on Ethereum might want to do the same.
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I don't know how many companies I've bought in my life, and most of them I've bought from children whose father has passed away, and they say, 'Now we're free, would you like to buy it?'
