Systole Contraction Quotes & Sayings

The thing that's confusing for investors is that founders don't know how to be CEO. I didn't know how to do the job when I was a CEO. Founder CEOs don't know how to be CEOs, but it doesn't mean they can't learn. The question is ... can the founder learn that job and can they tolerate all mistakes they will make doing it? — Ben Horowitz

It's wrong to criticize leaders of the church, even if the criticism is true. — Dallin H. Oaks

In our secular world, we no longer see eternal paradise as a carrot at the end of the stick of life, but try to cram as much as possible into our relatively short time on the planet instead. This is, of course, a futile endeavour, doomed to failure. It is tempting to interpret the modern epidemics of depression and burnout as the individual's response to the unbearable nature of constant acceleration. The decelerating individual - who slows down instead of speeding up, and maybe even stops completely - seems out of place in a culture characterised by manic development, and may be interpreted pathologically (i.e. diagnosed as clinically depressed). — Svend Brinkmann

It's more important to get along with people than to get ahead of them. — John C. Maxwell

I take you as my queen, to protect and honor, to be my light in darkness, my courage in fear, my healing in sickness, my riches in need, my peace in war, my life in death. In token I present to you my sword by which I so swear from this hour henceforth, until death take me or the world end. I name you now Calista Vandal."
(Hero's wedding vow to his bride.) — Ashlyn Macnamara

I can't figure out how they decide on those things. So I don't have any regrets about anything that I did that didn't get a lot of people to see it. — William Petersen