- 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.
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- Fame
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not after the money or the fame. I'm after the world championship, and that's it.
- Last
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's not an appropriations bill in the last 10 years that the-that Democrats passed in the Congress. We haven't spent any money of your taxes in the last decade.
- Making Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things I have known my entire life is that I have an innate capability for making money.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The goal of a private company is, first, zero to one: Get past the product-market fit; figure out whether people actually care about what you're trying to build and someone will pay you money for that. That's the zero to one problem.
- Good Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
The point of Silicon Valley, at least when I moved here, was we're all trying to do stuff, and none of us quite felt like we fit in anywhere else. But we were all trying to do good things. And the money was just the byproduct of good things.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
We believe that rural India is going to be the next driver of growth. You cannot make money overnight there, as you have to set up infrastructure there; the value of transactions is lower - you need a few years before you can really make all those businesses profitable.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean, first, almost all writers these days teach because they don't make enough money publishing to live on, to support themselves - people like Tobias Wolff, Anne Beattie, Amy Hempel, Stuart Dybek; a lot of short story writers, for one thing.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, in the old days, you might be able to slowly sort of build an audience for your work by publishing two, three novels before you hit it big. You know, now, there's much more of an emphasis in the publishing houses on making sure that every book makes money.
- Song
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you are writing a song for something else, if you are doing something for money, I always think that's bad luck.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not a contest-enterer by nature. But contests - and their entry fees - are often the main way literary journals raise money to, you know, publish their issues. So entering contests helps support the journal, which also helps support the writers they publish.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020