First Quotes

In 2000, when my partner Ben Horowitz was CEO of the first cloud computing company, Loudcloud, the cost of a customer running a basic Internet application was approximately $150,000 a month.

It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

I got to work with my wife, Lena Olin, for the first time, which was great. I thought it might be difficult in some way to talk to one's wife in a different way but it was so not forced.

I'm the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it's still about the work.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

First of all it's usually women who run these higher primate sanctuaries, rarely men. They are white. They come from privileged backgrounds. They are educated.

For the first time in your conscious memory; for the first time in fact, since your were a baby; a single tear, full and warm, rolled down your right cheek and you fell into a very deep and entirely dreamless slumber.

Young writers find their first audience in little magazines, and experimental writers find their only audience there.

I'm a Christian first, and a mean-spirited, bigoted conservative second, and don't you ever forget it.

I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.

I think the Civil Rights Movement changed that trajectory for me. The first thing I did was leave school. I was suspended for my participation in Movement demonstrations in my hometown, December, 1961.

For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.

I remember so vividly the first song I ever wrote. It was called 'Different People.'

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

First of all - I only believe what I see.

Youthfulness is connected to the ability to see things new for the first time. So if your eyes still look at life with wonder, then you will seem young, even though you may not be chronologically young.

Second place is just the first place loser.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

My first love was the sound of guitar.

If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.

The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.

The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.

The first wealth is health.

The Iraqi elections were an important first step.

We, the Social Democrats, are convinced that capitalism needs to be tamed a second time. The first time we achieved that in Germany for many decades with the social market economy. That is no longer enough. Now we need to do it in Europe and even globally.

When I first started in rock, I had a big guy's audience for my early records. I had a very straight image, particularly through the mid '80s.

So during those first moments of the day, which are yours and yours alone, you can circumvent these boundaries and concentrate fully on spiritual matters. And this gives you the opportunity to plan the time management of the entire day.

Conservatism vests in and depends on the widespread, informed understanding of human nature, self-governance and the First Principle of Progress: free people interacting in free markets produce the greatest good for the greatest number always, but only, when tethered to virtue and morality.

With photography a new language has been created. Now for the first time it is possible to express reality by reality. We can look at an impression as long as we wish, we can delve into it and, so to speak, renew past experiences at will.