Mike's Favorite Quotes

A running list of some of my favorite quotes

This is a board of quotes I enjoy, for some reason or another, in no particular order.

We all know what to do, we just don't know how to get re-elected after we've done it.

Jean- Claude Juncker

If you find yourself stumped by deep and meaningful questions, remember that if you know exactly how a system works, and could build one yourself out of buckets and pebbles, it should not be a mystery to you

Eliezer Yudkowsky

Being an entrepreneur is being willing to do a job that nobody else wants to do , in order to be able to live the rest of your life doing whatever you want to do.

Kevin Costner

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The best way to convince investors is to start a startup that’s actually doing well, meaning growing fast & then simply tell investors so.

Paul Graham

When you're good at something, you'll tell everyone. When you're great at something, they'll tell you.

Walter Payton

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.

Patrick Rothfuss (Name of the Wind)

For although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it, by being a slave himself.

Abraham Lincoln