Street Quotes

Most startup failures result from entrepreneurs who are better at making excuses than products.

Every threat to the status quo is an opportunity in disguise.

A free and open Internet is a despot's worst enemy.

Our world's future is far more malleable and controllable than most people realize.

The customer is always right...even when they're wrong.

The power of crowd sourcing always remains with the crowd, not the technological implementation.

The most important tool you have on a resume is language.

Be the best at what you do or the only one doing it.

You will have more regrets for the things you didn't try than the ones you tried and didn't succeed at.

Building a career or a company is about living a few years of your life like most people won't so that you can spend the rest of your life living at a level most people can't.

If you don't know where you want to be in five years, how do you ever expect to get there?

Plan for ways to get more enjoyment into your life and you will get more joy out of it.

Accepting that the odds are against you is the same as accepting defeat before you begin.

Whether driven by ambition or circumstance, every career gets disrupted.

Corporate planning cycles are a classic example of generals fighting the last war over again instead of preparing for what might lie ahead.

A dream with a deadline is a goal.

It is not incumbent on the world to conform to your vision of change. It is up to you to explain the future in terms that those living in the past and present can follow.

There are two types of people in this world: those whose look for opportunity and those who make it happen.

You have a choice: pursue your dreams, or be hired by someone else to help them fulfill their dreams.

There are riches to be found simply by capturing the value released through others' disruptive breakthroughs.

Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you love?

The magic of the street is the mingling of the errand and the epiphany.

I'm a just a mom when I walk down the street.

I got my heel stuck in a drain as I was crossing the street and cars were coming. It was really scary. A girl in heels in New York is a hard combination.

I spent a lot of time standing on street corners [of New York City] talking to local residents. I spent time in bookstores and galleries. But most of the time, I really did not have much to do.

Even now, sometimes on street corners... when I meet someone, I see your shadow. I'm sure that even now, you're still wearing that man's cologne... so you can sleep, even alone.

My ideal city would be one long main street with no cross streets or side streets to jam up traffic. Just a long one-way street.

So far, the only major accomplishment of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protesters is that they have finally put an end to their previous initiative, Occupy Our Mothers' Basements.

If Wall Street crashes, does Main Street follow? Not necessarily.

I come from Main Street, from a small town that's really depressed.

Im not averse to helping Wall Street when it helps Main Street.

We have to invest in our kids, we have to invest in our communities, we have to create jobs. We have to make certain that kids are not dropping out of school and hanging out on street corners.

When I was in Downing Street, David Cameron saw me and said, "Please, shout it all around and let it penetrate to my cabinet meeting." So I bellowed: "Gordon's alive!"

Street performers, homemade crafts, keep your wallet in your front pocket and don't buy any crap!

Atheists are suffering from bad PR. What if Sesame Street had an atheist character?

I was a TV junkie as a kid. I am the Sesame Street generation.

One of the depressing things in England is the total orthodoxy: the law is handed down from Downing Street.

I don't know what they are protesting at Occupy Wall Street but I'm on their side. But 10,000 protestors and one Porta Potty?

Main Street has too much debt already. It is simply a bonanza for speculators who can borrow the overnight money and then buy something that they can speculate on.

You go to Main Street, and Wal-Mart is coming to town and kicking out all the mom and pop stores. All the people that were in the mom and pop stores are now working for Wal-Mart.

Ten Downing Street is a house, not an office. That is its most important characteristic.

[Occupy Wall Street] had an impact on consciousness. It was not effective in realizing change.

I love being down at Occupy Wall Street. The sincerity, the youth involvement, the desire for better, is palpable and moving. There is true caring, sharing, and refreshingly naïve hope.

Here is what is needed for Occupy Wall Street to become a force for change: a clear, and clearly expressed, objective. Or two.

Infiltrating the mainstream was a natural extension of my street art. I've always tried to communicate ideas to the public as directly as possible.

I expect a zombie to show up on Sesame Street soon, teaching kids to count.

I suppose I could have called in the whole of the Army, but what was the use? All I had to do was call in Main Street itself.

Wall Street can never be allowed to threaten main street again. No bank can be too big to fail, no executive too powerful to jail.

If we're going to be an effective, efficient economy, we need to have all part of that engine running well, and that includes Wall Street and Main Street.

I always wanted to be a Muppet. So when 'Sesame Street' approached me to guest star, I thought: 'I'm going to be on this!' It's pretty incredible stuff.