Chamath Palihapitiya Quotes

Just keep believing. This is an opportunity where great things can happen and lets be great right now.

Happiness is a choice we make. You can wake up and say, 'Oh, I can't believe it's so cold,' or you can say, 'Oh, wow, this is a great opportunity for me to try out my new sweater.' No one can be consistently positive, but why not make the choice that makes you feel better rather than the one that drags you down?

You might not believe it...but you make the world a better place when you smile.

I personally believe that each of us was put here for a purpose -- to build not to destroy. If I can make people smile, then I have served my purpose for God.

The gratitude that we encounter helps us believe in the goodness of the world, and strengthens us thereby to do what's good.

I had no inkling I was going to run into this kind of luck I experienced. It's all happened and it's all turned my life around overnight; opportunities have knocked on my door and I'm just making use of them. I don't want to do anything and everything. I want to be a brand that every time I leverage my name I want people to feel sure that it's going to be something good - so whether it be my movies, my perfume, my restaurant, my musical, it'll be good work, good food and good everything.

I believe that if a million chances were likely to do good, they would be given.

I have seen that the American Dream is a reality - and I would love to feel the British Dream is also a reality. To enable that, we have to bring back some common sense and encourage family values, a proper sense of justice and make people believe they have a decent chance to build a business or career for themselves. I see this moment as a fantastic opportunity to restore this, because I believe Britain Has Talent.

I believe in kindness. Also in mischief.

I try not to take for granted how lucky we are to have life and breath and opportunity. Once we've got that, we can conquer anything.

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

A nation that still believes in itself holds fast to its own god.

But there's a whole world waiting, still, and there are good things in it.

Take it upon yourself where you live to make people around you joyful and full of hope.

I'm lucky. I don't know whether I'm deserving or not. All I know is that I work damn hard for everything. And God helps those who help themselves. Every day is like an exam. I believe destiny and hard work go hand in hand. I was studying to be an engineer when my mom and my brother sent my pictures for the Miss India contest. I didn't even know about it. If that isn't destiny, what is?

Now, success is not the result of making money; making money is the result of success - and success is in direct proportion to our service. Most people have this law backwards. They believe that you're successful if you earn a lot of money. The truth is that you can only earn money after you're successful.

Generosity helps us cultivate awareness of things that really matter. Opportunities that make a real difference in the world.

I think it's important never to look a gift horse in the mouth, never to overlook your talents [and] what you're good at.

Remember one thing: the one who brings unhappiness to others in the end becomes unhappy himself, and the one who brings happiness to others in the end reaches to the heights of happiness. That's why I am saying that someone who tries to give happiness develops the center of happiness inside himself, and someone who tries to bring unhappiness to others develops the center of unhappiness inside himself.

If you ever get the opportunity to work with Quentin Tarantino, you had better believe that it will be an experience of extremes.

A man is not as big as his belief in himself; he is as big as the number of persons who believe in him.

I don't believe in taking foolish chances, but nothing can be accomplished if we don't take any chances at all.

When I say I believe in a square deal i do not mean to give every man the best hand. If the cards do not come to any man, or if they do come, and he has not got the power to play them, that is his affair. All I mean is that there shall be no crookedness in the dealing.

I believe that the Constitution is not hostile to the idea that national problems can be solved at the national level through the cooperative efforts of the three coequal branches of government, the Congress, the executive and courts. But not every president, not every legislator and not every judge agrees that the federal government has the power to address and to try to remedy the twin national problems of poverty and access to equal opportunity.