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Harrison Zuritsky's
Favorite Quotes
quotes that stick around...
"Most people never pick up the phone, most people never ask."
— Steve Jobs


"There's a kind of excited curiosity that's both the engine and the rudder of great work. It will not only drive you, but if you let it have its way, will also show you what to work on."
— Paul Graham
"Keep writing new stuff. Don't worry about what gets accepted or rejected. Just keep moving forward and keep improving."​
— Colin Jost's thought process while writing for The Harvard Lampoon


“The first and best victory is to conquer self. To be conquered by self is, of all things, the most shameful and objectionable / vile.”
— Plato
"I do this real moron thing, and it's called thinking. And apparently, I'm not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions."
— George Carlin


"Once you've found something you're excessively interested in, the next step is to learn enough about it to get you to one of the frontiers of knowledge. Knowledge expands fractally, and from a distance its edges look smooth, but once you learn enough to get close to one, they turn out to be full of gaps."
— Paul Graham
"We’re trying to find a business with a wide and long lasting moat protecting a terrific economic castle with an honest lord in charge of the castle. In escence that is what business is about."
— Warren Buffet

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