126 Quotes Tagged: quotes

There is a definite time, a definite term, for everything. Possibilities for everything exist only for a definite time.

Gurdjieff

This is why you shouldn’t hire your friends. It’s all nice and professional until the insubordination starts. She sighed.

People do business with people, and it’s essential that entrepreneurs understand this going into any venture.

Love what is simple and beautiful.
These are the essentials.

Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other

To a child love is spelled T-I-M-E.

I didn't give a fuck whether I found anything or not. The thing is, never to be too anxious. Everything comes in due time.

The limits of your language are the limits of your world.

I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this.

[Cormac McCarthy's Venomous Fiction, New York Times, April 19, 1992]

We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story.

It is time for a wealth creation revolution. And it starts with you.

She fed him scraps from her ragbag because words were all that were left now. Perhaps he could use them to pay the ferryman. Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold. The world is charged with the grandeur of God. Full fathom five thy father lies. Little lamb, who made thee? Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie. On that best portion of a good man's life, his little nameless unremembered acts of kindness and of love. Farther and farther, all the birds of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire.

The air rippled and shimmered. Time narrowed to a pinpoint. It was about to happen. Because the Holy Ghost over the bent world broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.

You don’t need an MBA from an elite Ivy League school to find funding and be successful, but you do need to understand the start-up ecosystem.

At times it’s as if the Silicon Valley inmates are running the VC asylum. But what might seem like unicorn-crazed chaos from the outside looking in is actually carefully structured.

My take is that smart financiers wait until aha before they climb aboard the bandwagon. Entrepreneurs need to bridge the capital gap from idea to aha with expertise, not capital or sophisticated market research.