One of the beauty’s of a quote is its portability. One could simply isolate it from the rest of what was said. I mean, it acts somewhat like an image – communicating over a thousand words, going by the popular English idiom.
I assume quotes derive their primary relevance from the contextual metadata of the person who said it and when it was said. For instance, a quote from Mark Zuckerberg in 2004 (when Facebook was just starting) and a quote from him now, in 2017 (when Facebook is big enough to be the third most populated country in the world). The different levels of depth acquired by experience and exposure make for data points that lend credibility to how we perceive his (or that of any other speaker) words which have been formed into quotes (in this case).
Having started a thread on Twitter about some quotable quotes, I decided to firm them up into a blog post. Hopefully, you find one that sticks. To make it more fun, I’ll leave you to guess who said it.
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Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.
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Banking is necessary, but banks are not.
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Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
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Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.
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Brilliance is evenly distributed. Opportunity is not.
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Competition is one click away.
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Death is very likely the single best invention of life.
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Stay hungry, stay foolish
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There are two kinds of companies. Those who work to charge more and those who work to charge less.
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…just because Yahoo has a search box, it doesn’t mean they are Google.
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On their own, the quotes above could be meaningful. But as explained earlier, finding who said the quotes and when could help deepen our understanding. I’m just here to point us in the direction.
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