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I wasn't put on the Earth only to be an investor. That wasn't my only thing in life. The problem is that as you get good at something and you keep getting better at something, more and more people just know you as that, and they have you in that box.
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One of the things that technology has is a direct relationship with its users. We talk about newspapers. But the biggest newspapers in the world right now are Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram.
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Facebook is who you used to know; Twitter is who you want to know and things you want to know more about.
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In the earlier years of my career, I made my own attempts to fit in and be accepted as one of the tribe of Sand Hill Road guys.
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The Sharks step right on each other's questions, and if I ever did that in Silicon Valley, I would be considered a pariah. I literally had to learn how to interrupt.
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Just don't spend your money, and you're well on your way to becoming a millionaire.
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If you follow my tweets, you know, my attention and anxiety have been increasingly focused on the plight of our democracy.
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You can't necessarily tell when watching at home, but those pitches are usually an hour long each, and many are emotional, hilarious, and inspiring.
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People get out ahead of themselves in debt with spending on all of their desires. But if you learn to live pretty simply and well, well under your means, you feel incredibly, incredibly rich, and that frees you up and gives you the option to start something new, to leave the job you're not excited about, where there might be a glass ceiling on you.
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Buckminster Fuller - he never lost faith in the goodness of humanity.
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Once my ears were open to hearing mentions of 'Shark Tank', I was surprised by how many people in our world, even in our industry, tech and finance, loved the show.
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I've yet to see an example of somebody standing up to Donald Trump and suggesting policy initiatives and him embracing them yet. It's not happening at scale.
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Startup investing is one of my things, but it is not my everything.
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The Internet is not pervasive as it could be, or democratic.
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I may be the only shark who hasn't been on QVC, but I have learned a lot from those folks about what it takes to get a product on store shelves.
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When someone comes in with a product they want in Bed Bath & Beyond, that's way out of my comfort zone.
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When I first agreed to do 'Shark Tank,' they asked me to wear a suit, and I was just like, 'No. I can't. It'll end my career.'
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I don't have a boss or PR person, so I'm accountable to no one.
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Planet colonization is not a short term concern of mine. The physical limitations of space travel render it low on the list for me.
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If Twitter genuinely wants users to buy things at scale, they have to give us a chance to consider the offers and make a decision in a matter of minutes/hours/days, not just seconds.
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I literally should go to a Twitter therapist, just the 10 years of stress and trauma with this company.
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When I was 20 years old, I was living in Ireland, going to school in Cork. There was this girl in my film class that I was kind of flirting with. We had this notebook that we passed back and forth. We would write 10 questions and then pass it back while we were supposedly paying attention.
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Twitter is 'Black Twitter'. That is a brand that 'Black Twitter' has given itself. That's where the hashtags happen... where the excitement is.
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When you see a 'Shark fight' erupt, we aggressively want to understand what we are committing our money toward.