- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
People Quotes
Quotes about people, privacy, and human nature.
This page collects quotes touching on people in different senses - novelists describing how characters take on independent vitality, and technologists warning how easily people's movements and data can be tracked. It's a broader mix than a single theme, much like Like Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people, and I am one of them, hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not good to demonstrate your luxury and your wealth: to rub it in the faces of others is insulting. So you should be modest; try not to insult people by showing that you can do what they cannot.
- Rich
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many people say the privatisation was unfair: that is true - it was unfair. That is a fact: some people became rich and others did not. Unfair does not mean illegal, but it was inevitably unfair.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Big companies such as Google and Facebook buy startups at ridiculously high prices - not for their products, but for their people.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
Outsourcing was the bogeyman of the '90s. Protectionists portrayed it as an evil that would take American jobs away. Yes, some jobs did go offshore as people feared, but it made the global economic pie grow bigger.
- Fall
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- Nov 07, 2020
Building a company isn't that different from climbing a big mountain. You need people helping you traverse treacherous paths and to lift you up when you fall.
- Innovation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Innovation is all about people. Innovation thrives when the population is diverse, accepting and willing to cooperate.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you don't have savings, and your co-founders are as poor as you are, and if Mom and Dad won't loan you money, then your best bet is to find people that know you - your friends. If they, too, won't help, then you're stuck seeking out angel investors.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
Comedy is much more difficult than tragedy-and a much better training, I think. It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.
- Different Levels
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- Nov 07, 2020
The tax on being different is largely implicit. People need not act maliciously for it to be levied. In fact, at its heart is a laudable sentiment: 'prove it to me.' The problem is that we are requiring different levels of proof without realising it.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
Human behavior is an enormously complex set of things, and that mixture of underlying things is different for different people, so it's not just complex, it's meta-complex.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are bad at valuing other people, and we are worse the more different they are than us.
- Traditional
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- Nov 07, 2020
The traditional markers people use for hiring can be wrong - profoundly wrong.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020