"People are chasing cash, not happiness. When you chase money, you're going to lose. You're just going to. Even if you get the money, you're not going to be happy."
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"On Facebook, the definition of great content is not the content that makes the most sales, but the content that people most want to share with others."
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"If people say you shouldn't pursue business around your passion they are haters. Don't believe them."
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"I love people, and the hustle."
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"When I hear people debate the ROI of social media? It makes me remember why so many business fail. Most businesses are not playing the marathon. They're playing the sprint. They're not worried about lifetime value and retention. They're worried about short-term goals."
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"I find it fascinating that a lot of business books that do well are from people who've never made any money in business."
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"Everybody's scared for their ass. There aren't too many people ready to die for racism. They'll kill for racism but they won't die for racism."
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"It would also have been helpful to have gone to a Catholic grammar school. The only people who know grammar are those people who went to Catholic grammar school. Those nuns beat it into them."
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"When it comes to sports I am not particularly interested. Generally speaking, I look upon them as dangerous and tiring activities performed by people with whom I share nothing except the right to trial by jury."
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"The first people who died of AIDS were artists. They were the most interesting people."
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"You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do."
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"I used to rent a house in Princeton, New Jersey, and whenever people came to visit me, I would drive them past Albert Einstein's house, which is the most ordinary house in Princeton - a house, let me assure you, that now a salesman wouldn't live in. I'd always say, "That was Albert Einstein's house." And they'd say, "What do you mean? Why would Albert Einstein live in a little house like that?" And I'd always say to people, "Because he didn't care!""
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"A community is a butcher and a doctor, a minister, a town troublemaker. A "community" is not a bunch of people united by some grievance. That's just self-righteousness - incredibly dangerous and antidemocratic."
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"You people always hold onto old identities, old faces and masks, long after they've served their purpose. But you've got to learn to throw things away eventually."
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"To be honest, I think love is complete bullshit. I don't think anyone ever loves anyone. I think the best people ever get is horny; horny and scared, so when they find someone who makes them horny, and they get too scared of the world outside, they stay together and they call it love."
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"People tend to find books when they are ready for them."
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"It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people."
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"I don't just randomly kill people... I kill people when it's funny."
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""Some things may change," said Wednesday, abruptly. "People, however... People stay the same.""
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"I don't know why people would want to have lunch with writers. I've eaten with writers. We have appalling table manners, and rarely say anything other than 'Pass the salt' or 'If you're not going to eat that, can I have it?'"
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