#su

The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#able #buying #cars #drafts #finding

There are a few other things that I built when I was at Harvard that were kind of smaller versions of Facebook. One such program was this program called Match. People could enter the different courses that they were taking, and see what other courses would be correlated with the courses they are taking. ↗

— Mark Zuckerberg

#called #could #courses #different #enter

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode. ↗

— Chanakya

#alone #bad #born #consequences #dies

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness. ↗

— Chanakya

#above #any #below #friends #friendships

When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power. ↗

— Mark Zuckerberg

#everyone #give #giving #good #good place

Austin is such a free and creative place, but I can't enjoy it as much because everyone I love is back in L.A. ↗

— Kyle Chandler

#back #because #creative #creative place #enjoy

The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#effect #half #leisure #little #movement

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#failure #inevitable #know #often #success

There are now hundreds of thousands of new engineers that are being trained in China. If people start finding themselves losing their jobs, not to the Chinese here but because China has become such a dominant force - then there could very well be a backlash. ↗

— Iris Chang

#because #become #being #china #chinese

While I was writing Wild Swans I thought the famine was the result of economic mismanagement but during the research I realised that it was something more sinister. ↗

— Jung Chang

#economic #famine #i #mismanagement #more