John Collison Our idea with starting Stripe was to build better payments technology for people building things on the web. – John Collison Build Quotes Building Quotes Idea Quotes Payments Quotes People Quotes Starting Quotes Stripe Quotes Technology Quotes Part of Stripe’s vision is linking people better on the web. Coming from Ireland, it’s quite hard to do a startup because you’re culturally so far away from what everyone else is doing. In the Bay Area, it’s much easier. It’s the equivalent of an actor or actress moving to Hollywood.
Garth Brooks It’s the sweetest thing to be a parent of a daughter. When they hit their twenties, they become these lovebugs that come back. It’s just so sweet. – Garth Brooks
Sean Gunn I’d been a fan of old film comedies like Preston Sturges and Howard Hawks movies – the fast-paced dialogue in movies like ‘His Girl Friday’ and ‘Bringing Up Baby’ and ‘Twentieth Century’ and ‘Sullivan’s Travels.’ – Sean Gunn
Elizabeth Stuart PhelpsHappiness Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds. – Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Chloe Benjamin When people ask how I came up with the concept for my second novel, ‘The Immortalists’ – four siblings visit a fortune teller who is rumored to be able to tell anyone the date that they will die – I always wish I had a better answer. – Chloe Benjamin
Caroline Kennedy One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I urge young and old alike to embrace all that libraries have to offer. – Caroline Kennedy
Gordon Hayward Any time you can say you play the sport you love for a living, it’s pretty cool. You can’t beat that. – Gordon Hayward
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