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- Nov 07, 2020
Money Quotes
On earning, spending and money's honest reality.
These quotes take a candid look at money: the shifting economics behind building a winning team, the blunt math of a manager's career, and the mixed blessing of money attracting the wrong kind of attention. For more, see our Status quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- American Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been living the American Dream for over 25 years - just being able to do what I do, be creative, and make money out of it. It's incredible.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm blessed. I get to play the game I love for a living and make a lot of money doing it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have co-opted seed funds. You know, Y Combinator, that was completely our money. We have secret handshakes with a whole bunch of people. Very dangerous, because word gets out that so-and-so's money is Sequoia's money, that would not be a good thing.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always try to communicate to our people that we can never make enough money. We can never make enough profit.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Facebook has never been merely a social platform. Rather, it exploits our social interactions the way a Tupperware party does. Facebook does not exist to help us make friends, but to turn our network of connections, brand preferences and activities over time - our 'social graphs' - into money for others.
- Reality
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- Nov 07, 2020
The faux now of Twitter updates and things pinging at you - all the pulses from digitality that we try to keep up with because we sense that there's something going on that we need to tap into - are artifacts, or symptoms of living in this atemporal reality. And it's not any worse than living in the 'time is money' reality that we're leaving.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know of any other form of life that gathers up all the food it needs in the first two-thirds of its life in order to do nothing in its last third of life. In a utopian presentist society, instead of working extra hard to put money in the bank, you'd be working to provide value for the people around you.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every new computer program is basically doing some task that a person used to do. But the computer usually does it faster, more accurately, for less money, and without any health insurance costs.
- Nov 07, 2020
Richard Kerry not only was a pilot in World War II, but was a civil servant. He did not come from money.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The answer to New Orleans's levee woes is painfully obvious: money and willpower.
- Playground
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- Nov 07, 2020
New York can get on top of you if you don't have much money, but if you have money, it's kind of a playground.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020