Ugly
babies rarely become movie stars.
Ultimate
success comes from opportunities, bold moves which, by definition, cannot be
planned.
Ultimately,
human behavior dictates where business goes – not vice versa.
Unapologetically
self-interested, dismissing all needless emotion and creating his own moral
worth through productive endeavor.
Under
promise-over deliver.
Underneath
this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
Understanding
is the ability to look at life through someone else's eyes.
Unhappiness
is a communicable disease.
Unintelligible
answers to insoluble problems.
(Philosophy)
United we
stand, divided we fall.
Unless
silence makes you an accomplice, never betray a man's secret.
Unless
you're here, you're not here.
Unless
you’re the lead dog in the sled, the view never changes.
Until I
got to know myself, I never knew what narcissism meant.
Until
now I have felt that the only persons I could know in depth, or really love,
were duplicates or versions of my own wretched self.
Until you
have a position, all you have is an opinion. (Investment advisor)
Unused
power slips imperceptibility into the hands of another.
Upstanders,
not bystanders.
Urgency
is not an excuse for stupidity or brutality.
Use A/B
testing for optimization and fine-tuning, not for generating your big ideas
Use all
the force necessary and do not apologize for going in big if that’s what it
takes.
Use them,
but don’t make them smarter.
User
needs change in response to what you build for them. (Observing changes what’s being observed)
Using
words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef.
Validate:
a word used most often in educational theory and in parking lots.
Value
friendship for what there is in it, not for what can be gotten out of it.
Vampires
and artists cannot live alone.
Variable
rates of ascendancy: greatest risk to peers in careers.
Venture
capital is like vitamins - most of it gets pissed away.
Venture
doesn’t scale.
Very few
of us are tough enough to be soft.
Victory
favors the team making the fewest mistakes.
Victory
is in the race, not the finish.
Vision is
everything.
Vision is
not the same as depth perception.
Vision is
the art of seeing things invisible.
Violence
is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Violence
is the way stupid people try to level the playing field.
Vision is
the number one quality that people want in their leaders.
Vision
that is not rooted in detail is worthless.
Vision
without execution is hallucination. (Edison)
Vital,
relaxed play contained within a struggle for achievement.
Vitality
shows in not only the ability to persist, but the ability to start over.
Vulnerability
is often the price of growth.
Vultures: Patience, my ass. Let's kill something.
