#mark

The market is ridiculously overcrowded with early stage investors. This results in a talent drain, where the best talent gets diffused and work for their own startups. ↗

— Sean Parker

#diffused #drain #early #gets #investors

Even from the very beginning, I didn't put any money in the stock market. ↗

— Trey Parker

#beginning #even #i #market #money

If someone does something illegal on Twitter - like incite hatred, or make racist remarks, or threaten to rip someone's intestines out if they insult Justin Bieber - then there has to be some way of censuring them. ↗

— Tony Parsons

#hatred #illegal #incite #insult #justin

You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional. ↗

— Joe Paterno

#higher #higher level #level #mark #others

One way to find food for thought is to use the fork in the road, the bifurcation that marks the place of emergence in which a new line of development begins to branch off. ↗

— William Irwin Thompson

#branch #development #emergence #find #food

From the political angle, I'm trying to be apolitical if you will. I mean people say, 'Are you a red state or blue state?', I say, 'I'm purple.' I think there are great ideas on both sides of the aisle and neither side has cornered the market. ↗

— Brad Thor

#angle #apolitical #blue #both #both sides

Mark Helprin and Lawrence Durrell, both of whom write fat and florid novels that appall me now but opened my eyes to the power of fiction when I was in my 20s. ↗

— Kevin Patterson

#eyes #fat #fiction #i #lawrence

I loved making 'The Hunger Games' - it was the happiest experience of my professional life. Lionsgate was supportive of me in a manner that few directors ever experience in a franchise: they empowered me to make the film I wanted to make and backed the movie in a way that requires no explanation beyond the remarkable results. ↗

— Gary Ross

#beyond #directors #empowered #ever #experience

Marketing is the devil. ↗

— Billy Bob Thornton

#marketing

I see myself as life-sized, certainly not a supersized personality, and apparently after 30 years of television, that's what the audience thinks of me as well. I know this because for the first time in my career, I've just seen market research, and the thing I am known for is being authentic. ↗

— Jane Pauley

#am #apparently #audience #authentic #because