frankly speaking

6 months ago

You know, successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who’ve never done anything because if you haven’t been successful, then you don’t know how it feels to lose it all.”
Cite Arrow Jay-Z interview with Interview Magazine
8 months ago

It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who never knew neither victory nor defeat…”
Cite Arrow Theodore Roosevelt delivered at the Sorbonne in April 1910, also included in Andrew Ross Sorkins’ Too Big To Fail
9 months ago

Do we really need public Wi-Fi? For instance, I’m working at my lunch place right now. What if I called up a porn site? Would I get kicked out? Would I get arrested? Are laws in place? Shouldn’t there be? And what would possess anyone to go to Starbucks, then watch “The Big Bang Theory” on his laptop with headphones on? (And laugh repeatedly.) What’s the mindset there? This is my favorite show; I want to enjoy it while being surrounded by strangers who don’t know what I’m laughing at….”
Cite Arrow via Bill Simmons, aka The Sports Guy
9 months ago
Just sayin’…

Just sayin’…

9 months ago

When I invested, I thought Mark was one in a million. Now I think Mark is maybe one in a trillion…”
Cite Arrow We will see, won’t we David. David Sze about Mark Zuckerberg’s transformation into a CEO
10 months ago

When that voice inside you speaks, and affirms that you can accomplish something that others say is impossible or crazy, you will be well served to listen and act on it…”
Cite Arrow Full post from Bryce Roberts here
11 months ago

When you become mentally convinced that you can make a comeback from any adversity, then all of your creative forces will come to your aid..”
1 year ago

Common sense is not so common.”
Cite Arrow Voltaire
1 year ago

I’m a mirror, If you’re cool with me, I’m cool with you, and the exchange starts. What you see is what you reflect. If you don’t like what you see, then you’ve done something. If I’m standoffish, that’s because you are.”
Cite Arrow Jay-Z, Interview with Best Life
1 year ago

Being CEO of the state is not a popularity contest
Cite Arrow Meg Whitman on becoming Governor of California. Actually, Meg, yes, it is.