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718 Investor Quotes

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

Innovate Mistake Admit Quick
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Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them.

Technology Nothing Important Faith
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Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards 10 years later.

Course Connect Impossible Look
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It’s technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing.

Technology Married Liberal Art
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Recruiting is hard. It’s just finding the needles in the haystack. You can’t know enough in a one-hour interview.

Recruit Needles Haystack Enough
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Much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.

Stumble Follow Curious Intuition
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Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it’s really how it works.

Design Funny Word People
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We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.

Shame Steal Great Ideas
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Without passion, any rational person would give up!

Passion Without Rational Person
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Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.

Hungry Stay Foolish Wish
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Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Death Life Best Single
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If you want it, you can fly, you just have to trust you a lot.

Want Fly Trust A lot
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You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.

Something Trust Gut Destiny
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Everything is based on a simple rule: Quality is the best business plan, period.

Quality Everything Simple Rule
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Follow your heart, but check it with your head.

Follow Heart Check Head
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We hire people who want to make the best things in the world.

Hire People Make Things
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You cannot mandate productivity, you must provide the tools to let people become their best.

Mandate Productivity Provide Tools
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Some mistakes will be made along the way. That’s good. Because some decisions are being made along the way. We’ll find the mistakes. We’ll fix them.

Mistake Good Decision Along
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You should never go to a meeting or make a telephone call without a clear idea of what you are trying to achieve.

Never Meeting Telephone Idea
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We all have a short period of time on this earth-We probably only have the opportunity to do a few things really great and do them well. None of us has any idea how long we’re going to be here nor do I, but my feeling is I’ve got to accomplish a lot of these things while I’m young.

Period Short Opportunity Great
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Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Someday New Long Gradual
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Ask for feedback from people with diverse backgrounds. Each one will tell you one useful thing. If you’re at the top of the chain, sometimes people won’t give you honest feedback because they’re afraid. In this case, disguise yourself, or get feedback from other sources.

Feedback Background Chain Honest
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Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.

Everyone Sense Moment Influence
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The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

Broad Understand Human Experience
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In your life you only get to do so many things and right now we’ve chosen to do this, so let’s make it great.

Life Many Things Choose
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People don’t know what they want until you show it to them. That’s why I never rely on marketing research. Our task is to read things that are not yet on the page.

People Rely Marketing Research
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Shake off this erroneous notion that life is there and you’re just gonna live in it, versus embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it.

Shake Erroneous Notion Embrace
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I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what’s next.

Think Something Good Wonderful
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Your customers don’t care about you. They don’t care about your product or service. They care about themselves, their dreams, their goals. Now, they will care much more if you help them reach their goals, and to do that, you must understand their goals, as well as their needs and deepest desires.

Customer Care Product Service
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The greatest artists like Dylan, Picasso and Newton risked failure. And if we want to be great, we’ve got to risk it too.

Great Artist Risk Failure
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Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.

Design Fundamental Soul Human
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Great engineers are a huge multiplier.
Great Engineer Huge Multiply
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Not only do I think being nice and kind is easy but being kind, in my opinion, is important.

Being Being Nice Easy Think
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With drive and a bit of talent, you can move mountains. I know. I've done it.

Drive Bit Talent Move
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I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today.

Like To Use Hard
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For me it came from the material. It was so well written and brought the opportunity to work with great actors. And of course the opportunity to 'mince about' was an added element that I wanted to take advantage of!

About Actor Added Advantage
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That's a traditional Samoan dance. I was lucky that I was able to fly my cousins, who are professional dancers, up from Hawaii and they were able to be in the movie with me. We had a great time

Able Cousins Dance Dancers
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I liked his ability to deal with a lot of the negativity that surrounded him. Even though he was in a world that he didn't want to be in, he still saw the bigger picture.

Ability Deal With Lot
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When he speaks to you he speaks with an earnest vibe and an earnest energy.

He Speak Earnest Vibe
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The one thing I couldn't identify with was the blue cowboy outfit he put on.

Cowboy Identify One Blue
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If you check your ego at the door when it comes to comedy, you've got a pretty good shot at making a great movie that you can commit yourself to, you can jump off the proverbial cliff with, and have a great time, and the audiences respond to that.

Check Ego Door Comes
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What was important to me was entertaining the audience, and whether that meant winning, losing, singing, or whatever it was on the live show we were doing every week, which was awesome, I was game for it.

What Important Me Was
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I love making people laugh and feel good, and that's awesome and special for me to be able to do that, but there really is nothing like kicking ass whether it's on a major scale, or whether it's in more of a dramatic fashion. Being physical and taking care of business the old-fashioned way is something that I love doing.

Able Awesome Being Business
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One of the skills I had to learn and become proficient in is kissing a man. I had never kissed a man. Will Smith did it in his movies, so did Jake Gyllenhaal, and I figured it was my time. So it was me and Steve Carell - fantastic.

One Skills Learn Become
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Barack Obama did tell me that I was one of Michelle Obama's favorite actors.

Obama Michelle Tell Me
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Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me. Every night I had a live audience of 25,000 people to win over. My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

Audience Comedy Craziest Entertaining
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You've got to keep your finger on the pulse of what your audience is thinking, and know what they'll accept from you.

Accept Audience Finger Got
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I'd love to do a musical. I've been known to have a good step or two. I'm half Samoan, you know, and part of our culture is singing and dancing daily.

Been Culture Daily Dancing
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Every once in a while I get the highly inappropriate proposal which is like, 'Wow, Really! You don't even know me and I don't know you at all, and you want that to happen? Tonight? Ok, I get off work at 7.30.'

Even Every Get Happen
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If I had to describe myself to an alien I'd say I was bigger than the average human, enjoy a drink or two with a good meal and have a bigger head than most. I'd also say I'm really handsome - especially if they were a female alien.

Alien Also Average Bigger
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