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I enjoy building something good and having a successful product and making money. -- Wayne Huizenga
One of the top causes of startup death - right after cofounder problems - is building something no one wants. -- Kathryn Minshew
I pay a lot of attention to how things are done and the whole activity of building something is interesting. -- Donald Judd
I gave my life to the Group Theatre, because in it I'm building something for myself. What I build, I am. -- Elia Kazan
I love cycling, but if I could find a way of building something above the streets for cyclists, that would be amazing. We need even more space. -- Michelle Dockery
But all over Ohio - all over America - men and women are going back to work with the pride of building something stamped 'Made in America.' -- Ted Strickland
I grew up in a household that revered building businesses. It wasn't thinking about leadership; it was more about building something. To build something, you ultimately have to lead. -- Penny Pritzker
When you're building something, you know all of the trade-offs... -- Nolan Bushnell
...clatter of a typwriter suggests that you're actually building something. -- David Sedaris
In general, it's best if you're building something that you yourself need. -- Sam Altman
If you don't need it yourself, and you're building something that someone else needs, realize you're at a big disadvantage. -- Sam Altman
Innovation is hard because solving problems people didn't know they had & building something no one needs look identical at first. -- Aaron Levie
What matters is: Are you profitable? Are you building something great? Are you taking care of your people? Are you treating your customers well? -- Jason Fried
What if we found ourselves building something that nobody wanted? In that case what did it matter if we did it on time and on budget? -- Eric Ries
But all over Ohio - all over America - men and women are going back to work with the pride of building something stamped 'Made in America. -- Ted Strickland
I remembered what she'd told me in New York, about building something permanent, and I thought - just maybe - we were off to a good start. -- Rick Riordan
I don't think you get perfect couples. At best you get two people building something, and working at it, and loving each other, and doing their best to communicate. -- Neil Gaiman
If we are building something that users need, and there is a lot of value we are driving, I think how search manifests in iOS will work out just fine. -- Sundar Pichai
For the first time in history all the major countries in the world are pushing together to reach this goal... building something in space that is really for all humankind. -- Umberto Guidoni
Tim Conway was a little different from the rest. He was always in the back of the studio building something with the prop man, rewriting his lines, or plotting our demise. -- Vicki Lawrence
Dear young people, let me now ask you a question. What will you leave to the next generation? Are you building your lives on firm foundations, building something that will endure? -- Pope Benedict XVI
Skillful pitching... is a necessary, but not sufficient, part of raising capital. More important are the realities of your organization: Are you building something meaningful, long lasting, and valuable to society? -- Guy Kawasaki
So this anchoring in some way, in some important way in the past without repeating the past, but on the basis of the past building something new: that is what is important. -- Gunther Schuller
It's hard to write new stuff when the songs you have written before are still changing and evolving. It would be like building something when the foundations there are not really solid. -- Thomas Mars
The fun is in always building something. After it's built, you play with it awhile and then you're through. You see, we never do the same thing twice around here. We're always opening up new doors. -- Walt Disney
What I like on Kickstarter is when I see real innovation and I see people building something new. It makes me sad when I see things that are just the same technology; you aren't passing the technology forward. -- Bre Pettis
Sorry, investing was pretty boring and I really missed being part of building something. I felt like I was always standing on the sidelines, so Zappos... really liked the people there and got involved full-time and I've been full-time ever since. -- Tony Hsieh
The trouble with this country is that everything is new. We don't have any consideration for the past... Just because something is old, you don't just rip it down. You can renovate it instead of ripping it down and building something new. -- Woody Shaw
What matters is that you enjoy doing something creative. And I'm more and more seeing that as the key. That success and money or any sort of accolades are really not the experience of the journey. It's all about the process of building something. -- Josh Lucas
Nowadays, if you're a great artist, you don't have to leave the house, which is a really big difference. You're closer to the artist. And the artist can be closer to their artistry without having to always worry about branding themselves or building something image-wise. -- Russell Simmons
Confidence-building is not something that can go on forever. If it goes on forever then it becomes counterproductive. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of. -- John Irving
I view my career like a rubber-band ball in that every role is a new experience building toward something bigger. -- Jamie Chung
And a building must be like a human being. It must have a wholeness about it, something that is very important. -- Minoru Yamasaki
In New York City, when they develop something, they never use the old buildings. It's so wasteful. Why not use what's there? -- Nellie McKay
I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away. -- George Carlin
Something like 'Much Ado' happens, and even 'Avengers' happens because of the years of building connections and doing the work and proving yourself. -- Joss Whedon
Every time I've flown an aircraft, or visited a steelworks, or watched a panel-beater at work, I've learned something new that can be applied to buildings. -- Norman Foster
Our people are excited about building solutions, and it's rewarding to see how much fun Netscape employees have doing something they think is relevant and important. -- Jim Barksdale
Watching something being constructed, whether you're passing a building site or whether you're watching an artist at work, is fascinating, and I think that's the enjoyment. -- Nick Mason
A screenplay is not a finished product; a novel is. A screenplay is a blueprint for something - for a building that will most likely never be built. -- Nicholas Meyer
Building a proper wardrobe is like building a home. Indeed, you should think of it like a home, because it is something you're going to live in. It must be comfortable and suit all your needs. -- Edith Head
A building is not something you finish. A building is something you start. -- Stewart Brand
There's nothing better for building confidence than learning you can do something you thought you couldn't. -- Amy Chua
Try something. And never be afraid to fail. That failure is useful too. It's just another building block. -- Ricky Gervais
The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it. -- William C. Brown
The Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus. -- Timothy Keller
I love making things. I love building things. I love the idea that something's in the world that wasn't there before. -- Neil Gaiman
When you open the elevator on the top floor of a building and the other guy doesn't get out, something is seriously wrong. -- Mitch Hedberg
Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building. -- Oscar Wilde
For 'Breaking Bad,' our offices were in the ugliest building in Burbank, California. Which, if you know Burbank, is really saying something. -- Peter Gould
Speaker [Paul] Ryan made clear that the Republican congress agrees with [Donald Trump], and [building a wall] that`s something that should be done. -- Mark Halperin
Something about that whole process of building the structure of that game turned into a real kind of lightbulb moment for me as a writer. -- Naomi Novik
Our people are excited about building solutions, and it's rewarding to see how much fun Netscape employees have doing something they think is relevant and important. -- Jim Barksdale
I love going back to vinyl! I still have a great vinyl collection that I'm building up every couple of months. It's something I love to do. -- Brendon Urie
Withholding things in a story is no good if you aren't building to something substantial. It becomes foreplay without the main event, and no one wants that. -- J. J. Abrams
Creation always involves building upon something else. There is no art that doesn't reuse. And there will be less art if every reuse is taxed by the appropriator. -- Lawrence Lessig
Everything in life is a checklist, whether it's building a birdhouse or building a kitchen. If you don't have a checklist, you're much more likely to forget something. -- Brian Tracy
The Hacker Way is an approach to building that involves continuous improvement and iteration. Hackers believe that something can always be better, and that nothing is ever complete. -- Mark Zuckerberg

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