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“I had been self-publishing for a number of years at that stage and selling my books at markets around Melbourne - little pocket books. I'd make them for 10 cents and sell them for a dollar. But I knew there was an audience who loved silly stuff so I just kept plugging away.”

Years Littles Book Self Stuff Numbers Audience Stage Sells Dollars Silly Selling Pockets Cents Publishing Melbourne Silly Stuff

Author:Andy Griffiths

“I just don't understand, if they see numbers [of CEO salaries]that represent people, how they can somehow skirt around that and morally justify taking or ruining those lives and leaving them with nothing. That, to me, is violent crime. It's certainly more violent than selling grams of pot to other adults.”

People Ifs Numbers Crime Adults Leaving Violent Selling Justify Pot Ceo Salary Skirts Violent Crimes

Author:Eddie Vedder

“Australia will take more refugees from Syria in response to the growing international crisis but it will not increase the total number of asylum seekers it accepts.”

Numbers Accepting Growing Increase Crisis Response International Australia Syria Refugee Seekers Asylums Asylum Seekers

Author:Tony Abbott

“For me there's insecurity when you're releasing an album because you spend all of this time working on that one thing and then once it's done, it's done. After you put it out there to the public you never know which songs are going to work or even if the album is going to work as a whole so there is a little bit of nervousness around predicting what the numbers will be and if it's going to be well-received.”

Ifs Knows Wells Littles Done Whole Song Bits Numbers One Thing Little Bit Albums Insecurity Going To Work Predicting Nervousness

Author:John Legend

“One: demonstrations always crash. And two: the probability of them crashing goes up exponentially with the number of people watching.”

People Two Numbers Programming Software Crash Probability Demonstration Software Engineering

Author:Steve Jobs

“A certain number of people have to live their lives outdoors between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., and a certain number of people can only leave their homes between 8 p.m. and 8 a.m. So basically, public life has to be lived in these shifts, in order for everyone to fit on the streets because there's just no more room for any more infrastructure, any more highways. So it polarizes the community into day people and night people, and it becomes sort of a metaphor for racism and classism.”

People Home Night Certain Order Community Rooms Numbers Streets Fit Racism Metaphor Highways Infrastructure Public Life Classism

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“I'm trying to teach people of all ages to, number one: how to criticize, how to offer creative analysis on top of that, how to try to build things in a new direction and how to compliment people when the thing gets done.”

People Trying Done Age Numbers Teach Creative Offers Analysis Criticize Compliment New Directions

Author:Ray Bradbury

“With every decision that anyone makes, the world changes. The decision that we give our consent to is the one that remains in our consciousness, but the one that we didn't make-that alternate world goes on in its own direction. So there's uncountable numbers of alternate "us-es."”

World Giving Decision Numbers Consciousness Goes On Remains Consent

Author:Richard Bach

“To me, one of the most profound questions we can ask is: "So what?" And so what if there's an indefinite number of worlds with alternate "us-es" in them? The "so what," to me, comes alive when I ask myself: "What if I could find a way to get in touch with those alternate mes who made those choices?" That is, persons who, if I saw them now, I wouldn't even recognize because their choices, once small, have multiplied to make them such different people.”

People Ifs World Way Persons Made Different Choices Asks Numbers Saws Alive Profound If I Could What If Different Peoples

Author:Richard Bach

“I'm a situational writer. You give me a situation, like a writer gets in a car crash, breaks his leg, is kidnapped by his number-one fan, and is kept in a cabin and forced to write a book - everything else springs from there. You really don't have to work once you've had the idea. All you have to do is kind of take dictation from something inside.”

Giving Writing Kind Book Ideas Numbers Situation Break Fans Car Spring Give Me Legs Crash Cabins Kidnapped Car Crash Dictation

Author:Stephen King

“When my children were very young and I was working I had someone cooking for me. I don't have a cook now, I haven't had one for a number of years and I do it myself. But when they were all little it was hard to pay attention to everyone's homework at the end of the day and make dinner.”

Years Children Littles Ends Hard Young Numbers Pay Attention Havens Cooking Dinner Cooks Pay Attention My Children The End Of The Day Homework

Author:Meryl Streep

“I keep my phone number unlisted and rely on my associates to handle all voice mail, e-mail, faxes.”

Voice Numbers Phones Handle Rely Mail Associates Phone Numbers Fax

Author:Stephen Covey

“Your brain has more than 100 billion cells, each connected to at least 20,000 other cells. The possible combinations are greater than the number of molecules in the known universe.”

Inspirational Inspiration Universe Numbers Brain Known Greater Connected Billions Cells Combination Molecules Human Brain Neurons Anatomy And Physiology

Author:Brian Tracy

“There is another side to death. Whether death happens through an act of violence to a large number of people or to an individual, whether death comes prematurely through illness or accident, or whether death comes through old age, death is always an opening. So a great opportunity comes whenever we face death.”

People Happens Age Faces Opportunity Individual Sides Numbers Violence Illness Accidents Opening Old Age Large Numbers Great Opportunity Acts Of Violence

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Although an increasing number of humans are undergoing a process of awakening, identification with thinking is still the prevalent state of consciousness. Thinking is potentially a powerful tool, but it has taken us over, and a lot of it is dysfunctional and negative.”

Thinking Humans Stills States Process Powerful Numbers Consciousness Taken Negative Tools Awakening Identification States Of Consciousness

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“No matter how many people are screaming your name or how many Number One hits you have, you can still wake up and feel like a loser.”

People Feels Stills Matter Names Numbers Wake Up Loser

Author:Lady Gaga

“I've changed the way I look at things. When I put out a record or single I don't allow myself to set up expectations like, "This song must be a number one hit. Its got to sell X amount of records." I have fallen into that trap before.”

Way Looks Song Numbers Records Changed Amount Expectations Sells Fallen Traps I've Changed

Author:Scott Weiland

“The only reason there is a crisis about Social Security in the US and pensions in Europe and Japan is that you cannot maintain a "Ponzi" scheme indefinitely. We have collected from today's young to pay today's old and counted on tomorrow's young to keep doing so. That was a fine scheme as long as the number of young people was rising faster than old people. When that ratio comes to an end, such a system also has to end.”

People Long Ends Reason Today Young Social Numbers Pay Security Fine Tomorrow Europe Crisis Faster Rising Japan Schemes Old People Social Security Pension Ratios Ponzi Scheme

Author:Milton Friedman

“I would never have thought I was capable of sitting on the bench as the number two man. And it showed me that you can really achieve everything in life, even the unthinkable, as long as you're willing to work on yourself a little bit.”

Men Littles Long Two Bits Numbers Achieve Willing Little Bit Capable Sitting Benches Unthinkable Sitting On The Bench

Author:Oliver Kahn

“Now, the country is in a terrible state, and you've blamed it on a number of things: Unemployment rate, the value of the pound and all that... wrll, it's because the national anthem is boring.”

Country States Humor Funny Values Numbers Terrible Rate Boring Pounds Unemployment Anthem National Anthem Unemployment Rate

Author:Billy Connolly

“You know I used to work at Ikea, selling over 7,000 products. Give me a number between 1-7,000 I'll tell you about it. Sorry out of stock, lucky you chose that one.”

Knows Giving Humor Funny Used Numbers Products Lucky Give Me Sorry Selling Lucky You Ikea

Author:Milton Jones

“I never acted in anything I've directed but I have produced a number of films and I have acted in some of the movies I've produced. Usually with first time filmmakers and pushing a move forward I have played a small role but never the lead.”

Firsts Film Moving Numbers Roles First Time Moving Forward Filmmaker Pushing Small Roles

Author:Forest Whitaker

“Hello?... No I'm sorry no Shaquita here. Well what number did you dial?.. No it's a nine not a seven... Well try it if it doest work call me back we'll figure this thing out.”

Ifs Trying Wells Humor Funny Numbers Figures Seven Sorry Nine Call Me I'm Sorry Hello

Author:Katt Williams

“I'm going to name drop like an idiot now, but Bono rang me up once, right? I don't know how he got my number, but I, ever so stupidly, and obviously thought it was one of my mates mocking about. So I was like, "Yeah, whatever." And it was him, but I even went to him, "That's not even a good Irish accent!"”

Knows Humor Funny Names Numbers Know How Yeah Idiot Mates Accents Irish Accent

Author:Noel Fielding

“In YC's case, the number one cause of early death for startups is cofounder blowups.”

Causes Numbers Cases Team Early Death

Author:Sam Altman

“... you want to be proud of how much you can get done with a small numbers of employees.”

Want Done Numbers Team Proud Employee Be Proud Small Numbers

Author:Sam Altman

“Many of the best YC companies have had phenomenally small number of employees for their first year, sometimes none besides the founders.”

Years Firsts Sometimes Numbers Company Team Employee Founders Small Numbers

Author:Sam Altman

“By the way, that's my number one piece of advice if you're going to join a startup: pick a rocket ship.”

Ifs Way Numbers Pieces Team Advice Picks Ships Rockets One Piece

Author:Sam Altman

“As you grow, the productivity I think, goes down with the square of the number of employees if you don't make an effort.”

Ifs Thinking Grows Numbers Effort Productivity Employee Squares

Author:Sam Altman

“Most people, most great people even are ammunition. But what you need in your company are barrels. You can only shoot through the number of unique barrels you have, so that's how the velocity of your company improves... is by adding barrels, and then you stock them with ammunition and then you can do a lot.”

People Needs Can Do Numbers Company Unique Great People Barrels Velocity Ammunition

Author:Keith Rabois

“9/10 startups fail, which is a harsh reality in the world of entrepreneurship. However, I believe that such a high number of startups fail because they do not take the right steps necessary when building their business. The biggest challenge people have is building something that their target audience or niche really wants.”

People World Want Believe Reality I Believe Challenges Numbers Steps Audience Failing Building Entrepreneurship Target Harsh Niche Target Audience Harsh Reality Building Something

Author:Jeet Banerjee

“Value the quality of your articles over the number of articles you write. I know a lot of bloggers focus on writing as many articles as possible, but I've realized over the years that you cannot sacrifice quality if you wish to build a loyal following on your blog.”

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Author:Jeet Banerjee

“My first love is my mother. She did so much for us as children as a single parent. I watched her make a dollar out of fifteen cents. I thought she was either a magician or she had God's actual phone number. She wasn't a motivational speaker; she was an inspirational speaker.”

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Author:Betty Wright

“Every morning you have the economic news from all over the world, from television, radio, the Internet, and an hour later the news changes and the numbers change. People run fast from one place to another, which is very risky because they don't have enough time to think.”

People Thinking World Enough Running Hours Numbers Morning Economic Television Internet News Radio Every Morning Enough Time Time To Think

Author:Costa-Gavras

“Actually we've had a black bourgeoisie or the makings of a black bourgeoisie for many more decades.In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the US has always been a quest for economic liberation which means to a certain extent that the rise of black middle class would be inevitable. What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people who are more impoverished than ever before.”

“We have to look at for example the increasing globalization of capital, the whole system of transitional capitalism now which has had an impact on black populations - that has for example eradicated large numbers of jobs that black people traditionally have been able to count upon and created communities where the tax base is lost now as a result of corporations moving to the third world in order to discover cheap labor.”

“I'm 45, and I'm still at school, essentially. Even after being assigned to the mission, I had to write a number of exams, with people commenting on my performance.”

People Writing Stills School Numbers Performances Missions Exam

Author:Julie Payette

“With television, it's difficult to do some things. You have to shoot so many minutes a day, so you always have to be prepared or you won't be able to complete the number of pages that you have scheduled for that day.”

Able Difficult Numbers Minutes Television Pages Prepared Be Prepared

Author:Vilmos Zsigmond

“There are any number of models artists can use to profit off of their talent and artistry. It is not up to the state to protect them from competition. Musicians can obviously get paid for performing and having their music copied and "pirated" helps them in this respect by making them more well known, more popular.”

Wells States Helping Use Artist Numbers Known Talent Protect Musician Models Paid Competition Profit Performing Well Known Artistry

Author:Stephan Kinsella

“My dad, a mathematician, raised me to believe that mathematics is beautiful, so math is a part of my imaginative terrain. In my late 20s I wrote several 11-line poems because I wanted to create poems that couldn't be uniformly divided into couplets, tercets, or quatrains, 11 being a prime number.”

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Author:James Arthur

“After I published my first book, my sister, known as Kali Willows, began writing. She fell as in love with it as I did. She has a number of short stories.”

Writing Firsts Book Stories Numbers Known Short Story My Sister Kali

Author:Franny Armstrong

“In the past twenty years, we have lived through several cycles and we have always managed to buy under good terms and conditions at the right time. This has enabled us to build a solid group that is now the world number one.”

World Years Motivational Past Term Numbers Groups Conditions Twenties Cycles Right Time

Author:Lakshmi Mittal

“"Patents make our product defensible." The optimal number of times to use the P word in a presentation is one. Just once, say, "We have filed patents for what we are doing." Done. The second time you say it, venture capitalists begin to suspect that you are depending too much on patents for defensibility. The third time you say it, you are holding a sign above your head that says, "I am clueless."”

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Book:Reality Check: The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and Outmarketing Your Competition

Source: Reality Check: The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and Outmarketing Your Competition

“The greatest number of drug addicts are to be found in Teheran and in Karachi, not in the West. Not in New York believe it or not. It's the same with the roles of slavery, racism and imperialism in the world. These institutions were present in other cultures. However, it was Western civilization which did something about slavery, about racism and voluntarily dissolved its empires leaving behind a very positive legacy of institutions not to mention buildings and roadways.”

“Statistics compiled by the German Federal Motor Transport Authority highlight how successfully we have reduced fuel consumption. A few years ago, the CO2 emissions for the BMW brand were at well over 200 grams per kilometer. In 2009, that number was at 159 grams. This puts us below our direct competitors.”

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Author:Norbert Reithofer

“There's the underlying feeling that writing must be easy, because it's all about putting letters together. That's only true in the same way that programming is all about putting numbers together.”

Way Writing Feelings Together Easy Numbers Letters Programming

Author:Rhianna Pratchett

“China is a sleeping giant if you just take a look at their experience regarding all kinds of sport, not football though, and the number of people that love sports. Chinese are eager to hit new shores and they are ambitious.”

People Ifs Looks Kind Sports Sleep Numbers Football China All Kinds Chinese Giants Shore Ambitious

Author:Berti Vogts

“If I can't blow to significant heights, at least I can inspire the niggas that's doing the big numbers.”

Ifs I Can Bigs Numbers Inspire Blow Significant Height

Author:U-God

“You got to work hard whatever you're doing and try to be number one and take pride in what you're doing. You want to be at the best at your spot then you got to work hard, man. A lot of guys don't work as hard as it gonna take.”

Men Want Trying Hard Guy Numbers Hard Work Pride Spots Doing You

Author:Moses Malone

“I'm just so happy and proud of everybody and what everybody's doing. From Curren$y doing decent numbers with the independent, digital release; from Asher selling 1.1 million-plus on iTunes with the single and almost at 200,000 [albums sold] now; Cudi got almost 4,000 BDS's a week; Mickey Factz doing the Rock The Bells tour; Blu signed a deal shortly after; Ace Hood had two very successful singles, another album getting ready to drop. Everybody's doing their thing, man.”

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Author:Wale

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