Kurt Gurley quote: "Don't think of this as good news. All the billions of dollars of damage that happened over the past few years happened at winds speeds a lot lower than we think they are."

Making big wind isn't the same as creating a hurricane. The ultimate goal here is to have a full-sca...
KURT GURLEY

Nothing we observed got close to a Category 3 wind speeds.
KURT GURLEY

The disconnect is not between us and forecasters, it's between us and people in general.
KURT GURLEY

Don't think of this as good news. All the billions of dollars in insured losses from the last few ye...
KURT GURLEY

We haven't seen something this big since we started the programme.
KURT GURLEY

You have to be careful. I see what I would suggest are features being funded as companies right now.
BILL GURLEY

If a conventional pharmaceutical company had this kind of quality control, the FDA would shut them d...
BILL GURLEY

Over the past 10 years, the majority of value creation in the venture community has been in consumer...
BILL GURLEY

You have to realize that these things are potent cardiac stimulants, and when you are exercising and...
BILL GURLEY

We did a good job of not going for fakes. And Turner had some massive, high-elevating, snatch-it-dow...
MIKE GURLEY

We went into this game very prepared. We went over their tendencies and what they do, so we knew pre...
ANTHONY GURLEY

It definitely helps, the big game experience we've had in the past, especially last year. I guess th...
ANTHONY GURLEY

We came out with great intensity at the beginning, knocking down shots and stuff like that. Then in ...
ANTHONY GURLEY

I have never seen Jeff Bezos, Marc Benioff, or Reed Hastings complain about being public. Nor have t...
BILL GURLEY

Venture capital is unscalable. Production equals the time each partner has.
BILL GURLEY

It is critical to bundle all future variable costs of supporting the customer in order to fairly est...
BILL GURLEY

Marketing executives like big budgets, as big budgets make it easier to grow the top line.
BILL GURLEY

If one asserts that buying customers below what they charge them is a corporate strategy, this is in...
BILL GURLEY

Many consumer Internet business executives are loyalists of the Lifetime Value model, often referred...
BILL GURLEY

Most firms are hierarchical in nature, with everyone getting different slices of the economic pie. T...
BILL GURLEY

The first time you went to eBay, you probably didn't do a transaction.
BILL GURLEY

I think one thing that may have happened with both Facebook and Zynga is that they may have waited t...
BILL GURLEY

It's not for everybody to tweet, it's for everybody to follow. The more people figure that o...
BILL GURLEY

Almost everybody who thinks about local thinks about daily deals, but companies like OpenTable and Z...
BILL GURLEY

It's really hard to run a business against somebody who is not acting as if it were in business.
BILL GURLEY

If the goal is to build companies that maximize long-term equity value, then optimizing corporate pe...
BILL GURLEY

Facebook has stitched together your social graph. The idea of an interest graph is to bring together...
BILL GURLEY

I think one of the key differentiators I bring to the table as a venture capitalist is a solid under...
BILL GURLEY

Having an investor on your board of directors who is naive about public markets or finds them comple...
BILL GURLEY

This team sort of rides my attitude, and if I'm ornery, they get nervous, and if I get frustrated, t...
MIKE GURLEY

One of the things we need to do as the Board of Commissioners is to work with the school board to de...
TONY GURLEY

People's lives change. To keep all your old friends is like keeping all your old clothes -- pretty s...
HELEN GURLEY BROWN

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork -- reading, writing, thinking--can.
HELEN GURLEY BROWN

I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who are...
HELEN GURLEY BROWN

Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.
HELEN GURLEY BROWN

I was mousy on the outside but inside I'm this tiger and I have to get on with it,
HELEN GURLEY BROWN

What Cosmo did was report on what was true out in the real world, but was never reported before. Som...
HELEN GURLEY BROWN

Cosmo is feminist in that we believe women are just as smart and capable as men and can achieve anyt...
HELEN GURLEY BROWN

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can
HELEN GURLEY BROWN

It's still the No. 1 seller on college campuses, maybe in the Top 10 in the newsstands, ... Two mill...
HELEN GURLEY BROWN

Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody.
HELEN GURLEY BROWN

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.
HELEN GURLEY BROWN

You can have your titular recognition. I'll take money and power.
HELEN GURLEY BROWN

I've got to admit, it's one of the most fun parts of my job, ... We laugh our butts off when we do t...
HELEN GURLEY BROWN

good girls go to heaven and bad girls go everywhere
HELEN GURLEY BROWN

The message was: So you're single. You can still have sex. You can have a great life. And if you mar...
HELEN GURLEY BROWN

No office anywhere on earth is so puritanical, impeccable, elegant, sterile or incorruptible as not ...
HELEN GURLEY BROWN

You name it, we're out there with the latest and the best cutting edge,
HELEN GURLEY BROWN

Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.
HELEN GURLEY BROWN

I would say that Cosmo was always a feminist magazine; it was before the movement really took shape....
HELEN GURLEY BROWN

We got lots of credit for being oh-so-sexy and oh-so-outrageous,
HELEN GURLEY BROWN

Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind...
HELEN GURLEY BROWN

One of the paramount reasons for staying attractive is so you can have somebody to go to bed with
HELEN GURLEY BROWN

I hope I have convinced you / the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren...
HELEN GURLEY BROWN

I care. I care a lot. I think of Cosmopolitan all day, and I run scared. So it's a combination of fr...
HELEN GURLEY BROWN

When I wrote 'Sex and the Single Girl,' which was the precursor to Cosmopolitan, if you didn't have ...
HELEN GURLEY BROWN

One of the paramount reasons for staying attractive is so you can have somebody to go to bed with.
HELEN GURLEY BROWN

After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.
HELEN GURLEY BROWN

You can have your titular recognition. I'll take money and power.
HELEN GURLEY BROWN

You name it, we're out there with the latest and the best cutting edge.
HELEN GURLEY BROWN

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.
HELEN GURLEY BROWN

Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind...
HELEN GURLEY BROWN

Over the Thanksgiving holiday I took time to reflect on what is most important to me and realized I ...
KURT BUSCH

My cash cows, the slick magazines, were put out of business by TV.
KURT VONNEGUT

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the ki...
KURT VONNEGUT

Oh, sure, we have another world war coming, and another great depression, but where are the leaders ...
KURT VONNEGUT

Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been...
KURT VONNEGUT

If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely y...
KURT VONNEGUT

There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.
KURT VONNEGUT

I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.
KURT VONNEGUT

I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know...
KURT VONNEGUT

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.
KURT VONNEGUT

I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.
KURT VONNEGUT

Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudic...
KURT VONNEGUT

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thin...
KURT VONNEGUT

I don't like to have gimmicks. I don't like to have gadgets and stuff. I just like to go out...
KURT ANGLE

Pro wrestling is not fake; it's sports entertainment. We go out there and we perform, and a lot ...
KURT ANGLE

In the aftermath of the oh-so-predictable crash, the Bitcoin fanatics have begun marshaling out excu...
KURT EICHENWALD

If I wouldn't have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.
KURT COBAIN

'Bunk' is a comedy game show where, each week, three of my favorite comedians compete in a s...
KURT BRAUNOHLER

Eric Bryant and Ethan Berlin, the creators of 'Bunk,' asked me to come get involved in very ...
KURT BRAUNOHLER

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn't always so ...
KURT VONNEGUT

People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll h...
KURT VONNEGUT

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can an...
KURT VONNEGUT

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our...
KURT RUSSELL

When it came to dire warnings about Obamacare, the Republicans were the kings of 'swing and a mi...
KURT EICHENWALD

'Bunk' is better than 'Wheel of Fortune' because we have a wheel, just like them, bu...
KURT BRAUNOHLER

I get up at 7:30 and work four hours a day. Nine to twelve in the morning, five to six in the evenin...
KURT VONNEGUT

To a degree, the West is reaping what it sowed from a major strategic blunder in the aftermath of 9/...
KURT EICHENWALD

Sometimes I wish I had taken the Bob Dylan route and sang songs where my voice would not go out on m...
KURT COBAIN

I understand with love comes pain, but why did I have to love so much?
KURT LEWIN

Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical ...
KURT VONNEGUT

The mistrust of government that blossomed in the late '60s has become a chronic and in some ways...
KURT ANDERSEN

I've learned in most areas of my life, to bounce heated choices off other people. Co-workers, my...
KURT SUTTER

There are many young Americans that are very distant from our political process.
KURT ANGLE

can't believe it, but it's next.
KURT ANGLE

here.
KURT ANGLE

It's true; this stuff can't be made up, folks.
KURT ANGLE

What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and c...
KURT VONNEGUT

The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowled...
KURT VONNEGUT

In my new IFC comedy game show, 'Bunk,' we actually use our intern Patrick as a human timer ...
KURT BRAUNOHLER

The entire New York comedy scene has moved to L.A. - it's bled the New York comedy scene dry.
KURT BRAUNOHLER

I feel that the most important step in any major accomplishment is setting a specific goal. This ena...
KURT THOMAS

Being American is to eat a lot of beef steak, and boy, we've got a lot more beef steak than any othe...
KURT VONNEGUT

... this is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so many human beings so reluctant to laugh, so inc...
KURT VONNEGUT

They laugh at me because I'm different; I laugh at them because they're all the same.
KURT COBAIN

I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake o...
KURT COBAIN

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.
KURT COBAIN

The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much wi...
KURT VONNEGUT

We are all what we pretend to be, but, we had better be very careful what we pretend.
KURT VONNEGUT

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a ver...
KURT VONNEGUT

I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds o...
KURT VONNEGUT

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
KURT VONNEGUT

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than befo...
KURT VONNEGUT

People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order, so they'll have...
KURT VONNEGUT

There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos inste...
KURT VONNEGUT

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.
KURT VONNEGUT

I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled Science Fiction and I would like out, par...
KURT VONNEGUT

Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.
KURT VONNEGUT

Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us hu...
KURT VONNEGUT

There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, I said, but no good reason ever to have without reser...
KURT VONNEGUT

My generation's apathy. I'm disgusted with it. I'm disgusted with my own apathy too, for being spine...
KURT COBAIN

We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.
KURT COBAIN

The worst crime is faking it
KURT COBAIN

Those who hate most fervently must have once loved deeply; those who want to deny the world must hav...
KURT TUCHOLSKY

Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but...
KURT VONNEGUT

You do not boo an Olympic Gold Medalist. I'm the best in the world. I came here for you. You dont' b...
KURT ANGLE

Join me in Olympic Heros for Abstinence. The best sex is no sex.
KURT ANGLE

Mom hates dad, Dad hates mom, it all makes you feel so sad.
KURT COBAIN

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes a...
KURT COBAIN

Love is a gift. You can't buy it, you can't find it, someone has to give it to you. Learn to be rece...
KURT LANGNER

It was a thunderingly beautiful experience -- voluptuous, sexual, dangerous, and expensive as hell.
KURT VONNEGUT

We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrol...
KURT VONNEGUT

My first year of pro ball I played in the Northwest league and made the all-star team, and the next ...
KURT RUSSELL

Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
KURT VONNEGUT

It took me a few years to explain to my colleagues and my mentors and the people that I looked up to...
KURT ANGLE

I teased Randy Orton because he started using my finish, the Angle Slam. I said, 'Hey, I don'...
KURT ANGLE

Plenty of people detested Michael Jackson before his death wiped away the world's collective mem...
KURT EICHENWALD

When Jack Swagger copies my Ankle Lock and Randy Orton does my Angle Slam, it's disrespectful. I...
KURT ANGLE

And so popular culture raises issues that are very important, actually, in the country I think. You ...
KURT LODER

I often set two alarm clocks because I'm afraid the first one won't actually make me get up.
KURT ANDERSEN

So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There's jus...
KURT LODER

The myth that people with epilepsy swallow their tongues is very injurious. When I had seizures with...
KURT EICHENWALD

Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this messag...
KURT VONNEGUT

I don't blame the average seventeen-year-old punk-rock kid for calling me a sellout. I understan...
KURT COBAIN

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to rem...
KURT VONNEGUT

I have no degree in biochemistry, neither do I have one in mechanical engineering, as the Army saw f...
KURT VONNEGUT

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the countr...
KURT VONNEGUT

I sing and play the guitar, and I'm a walking, talking bacterial infection.
KURT COBAIN

I'm too busy acting like I'm not Naive. I've seen it all, I was here first.
KURT COBAIN

I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn't.
KURT COBAIN

There's nothing better than having a baby. I've always loved children. I used to work summer...
KURT COBAIN

I'm a spokesman for myself. It just so happens that there's a bunch of people that are conce...
KURT COBAIN

We're so trendy we can't even escape ourselves.
KURT COBAIN

I'm so happy because today I found my friends - they're in my head.
KURT COBAIN

I'm not well-read, but when I read, I read well.
KURT COBAIN

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes a...
KURT COBAIN

If it's illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!
KURT COBAIN

Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock.
KURT COBAIN

I really miss being able to blend in with people.
KURT COBAIN

A friend is nothing but a known enemy.
KURT COBAIN

I like to complain and do nothing to make things better.
KURT COBAIN

The sun is gone, but I have a light.
KURT COBAIN

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.
KURT COBAIN

What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American f...
KURT VONNEGUT

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.
KURT COBAIN

The worst crime is faking it.
KURT COBAIN

Rather be dead than cool.
KURT COBAIN

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since...
KURT VONNEGUT

You don't know what bravery is until you overcome fear.
KURT ELLING

There is a point at which the law becomes immoral and unethical. That point is reached when it becom...
KURT HUBER

I navigate through the world with the excitement and determination of a child. That's why I'...
KURT SUTTER

Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, &...
KURT COBAIN

It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings.
KURT COBAIN

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.
KURT COBAIN

We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
KURT VONNEGUT

The reality is that we are all economists. We all deal with scarcity as we make choices and calculat...
KURT BILLS

There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of ...
KURT VONNEGUT

This is fun. This is entertainment, right guys?
KURT BUSCH

I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done...
KURT COBAIN

I grew up as a very sarcastic person. I was always the class clown, and to date girls, I had to be r...
KURT FULLER

When 'Christians' cite the Bible as the basis for secular policies, they must explain why th...
KURT EICHENWALD

I think a lot of people, including me, clammed up when a civilian asked about battle, about war. It ...
KURT VONNEGUT

There is never a shortage anywhere of lawyers eager to attack the First Amendment, as though it were...
KURT VONNEGUT

I think it's wrong for the government to subpoena records from journalists involved in national-...
KURT EICHENWALD

I now make my living by being impolite. I am clumsy at it.
KURT VONNEGUT

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are
KURT COBAIN

For a long time, I dressed like an idiot. In college, I had a fully shaved head with just two horns....
KURT BRAUNOHLER

Out of all the guitars in the whole world, the Fender Mustang is my favorite. They're cheap and ...
KURT COBAIN

If you appear in the 'Atlantic' or 'Harper's' or the 'New Yorker,' by Go...
KURT VONNEGUT

It is a big temptation to me, when I create a character for a novel, to say that he is what he is be...
KURT VONNEGUT

About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilitie...
KURT VONNEGUT

I've had this terrible stomach problem for years, and that has made touring difficult. People wo...
KURT COBAIN

It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wro...
KURT VONNEGUT

I'm a guy who has problems with moderation. All or nothing. Binge and purge. Kill or be killed. ...
KURT SUTTER

Assess Bitcoins? All you can do is examine the trading patterns, which do not provide a real analysi...
KURT EICHENWALD

A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achiev...
KURT LEWIN

I am honorary President of the American Humanist Society, having succeeded the late, great science f...
KURT VONNEGUT

Don't think of this as good news. All the billions of dollars of damage that happened over the past few years happened at winds speeds a lot lower than we think they are.

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