Chris Whittle Quotes

I grew up assuming that I would be in public service. I never planned to be in business.

Chris Whittle

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Music is made up out of these building blocks. Studying how these blocks go together and what they consist of and the math of how it works - it's all the same stuff; it's just different aesthetics that we're talking about.

Flea Jane's Addiction
- Up
- Music
- Different
Almost anything worth doing involves some measure of risk - from learning to ride a bike, moving to a new city, and certainly, starting your own business. The point is that no one has ever started a business or created a new product with a guarantee of success.

Fabrizio Moreira
- Business
- Success
- City
When you put the pressure on yourself, it's not good. If you fight afraid to lose, you wind up not fighting that good.

Rafael dos Anjos
- Up
- Good
- Fighting
Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel.

Carl Clinton Van Doren
I'm not going to break up my family, not for a book.

Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Up
- Family
- Book
You have another little drink, and I'll have another little drink, and maybe we can work up some real family feeling here.

Irving Ravetch
- Up
- Work
- Real