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Respect my authoritah

“...I think there should be some more respect for capital.”

Janice Hester-Amey, CalSTRS Corporate Governance portfolio manager, lectures Mark Zuckerberg how to treat his new set of friends

In praise of being old

“Endurance is not a young person’s game. I thought I might even be better at 60 than I was at 30. You have a body that’s almost as strong, but you have a much better mind.”

Diana Nyad, on picking up long distance swimming after a 30-year hiatus

We are our own editors

“The threshold to have literature printed and distributed — the cost structure went down to zero dollars. Thereby, there is no gatekeeper of the truth. We are our own editors, and we are our own publishers. We are our own printers.”

Ashton Kutcher gets it exactly right before ruining his pithiness with continued talking (read the story for the rest of the quote)

Meg on her qualifications to be CEO of HP

“So I actually understand this space relatively well.”

Meg Whitman doesn’t protest too much about her expertise running a $120 billion hardware company

Do the math

“First, consider that over the last 10 years, something like 22,000 companies that have been funded. That’s 2,200 a year. What’s happening is that in the seventh year of the venture life cycle, you better know who you’ll double down on or drop off the boat. Do you think there will be more than 400 exit events a year, meaning IPOs, mergers, and so forth? Maybe. There definitely won’t be 600, though. That leaves 1,500 companies, give or take, that will die. The world can only absorb so much.”

Marty Pichinson, cofounder of Sherwood Partners, undertaker to the Silicon Valley deadpool

Cody Ross is boss

“[Cody Ross] could be the running mate on a Tommy Lasorda presidential ticket, and I’d still love him. It’s good to see him hitting well.”

Grant Brisbee goes about as deep as a Giants fan can in expressing his love

Daisy explains finance

“But, oddly, throwing the bill in the trash did not make it go away.”

Daisy Barringer, who not only wrote one of my favorite lines on xoJane.com but also actually hugged me at the launch party

That makes one of us

“I will not be running for president as much as I’d like to.”

Donald Trump, disappointing tens of people everywhere

Michael Arrington, voice of reason

“But the really important thing to remember, as a reader, is that there is no objectivity in journalism. The guys that say they’re objective are just pretending.”

Michael Arrington calls bullshit on his entire industry (and he’s 100% correct). The other quote I almost used — “I have little hope for this industry until the last of the old guard have finally been put down.” — is just as good.

On behalf of Americans, I’d like to thank the Donald

“He should have done it a long time ago. I am really honored to play such a big role in hopefully, hopefully getting rid of this issue.”

Donald Trump, patriot, on saving the nation from the infamy of having elected a foreigner a few years ago