The best Quotes by Paul Allen

Our net worth is ultimately defined not by dollars but rather by how well we serve others.

Facing your own mortality forces you to re-evaluate your priorities.

The intensity of the Super Bowl is one-of-a-kind. An NBA finals is best-of-seven. But the Super Bowl, one game, winner-take-all. The intensity is off the charts.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces people into thinking they can't lose.

Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

Life is not fair, get used to it!

I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.

Don't compare yourself with anyone in this world…if you do so, you are insulting yourself.

There are a few things that I doubt will ever go back.

The U.S. is past this opportunity to control COVID-19 without shutdown. We did not act fast enough to have an ability to avoid the shutdown.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

The Internet is like a wave. You either learn to swim with it or you sink.

If you were born poor, it's not your mistake.
But if you die poor, it's your mistake.

Nuclear energy, in terms of an overall safety record, is better than other energy.

The AIDS is a disease that is hard to talk about.

If you have less money than Elon [Musk], you should probably watch out.

You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There's another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity.

Bitcoin is exciting because it shows how cheap it can be. Bitcoin is better than currency in that you don't have to be physically in the same place and, of course, for large transactions, currency can get pretty inconvenient.

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It's a good thing we have museums to document that.

Why can't you compare Washington State and Florida?
Because it'd be like comparing apples and oranges.

One doesn't soon forget the natural beauty of Washington, although those of us who live here do sometimes take it for granted.

They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to Washington - and that's pretty much the same thing.

As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.

If you lose money you lose much,
If you lose friends you lose more,
If you lose faith you lose all.

No amount of money ever bought a second of time.

Surely it was a good way to die, in the place of someone else, someone I loved.

Time after time after time I do all this shit for other people, and then I wake up and I'm empty. I have nothing.

Live for yourself and you will live in vain;
Live for others, and you will live again.

The only time that we are allowed to look down upon others: when we are offering to help them up.

I don't think you're much good, unless you're doing good to someone.

I only succeed when I help others succeed.

There's no death for those who don't fear it.

Death is so close, always, a breath away, so perhaps it was wise to introduce children to that concept at an early age.

Have you no hope at all? And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing remains?" "Yes," I said.

We're not done, dawg, I want three!

It's definitely a blessing, but you don't think about it a ton, because once you win the AFC Championship game - now you're in the Super Bowl and you're focused on that game.

Scott Hanson: "If it comes down to it, Brock. It's late in the fourth quarter, are you prepared to disappoint Taylor Swift?"
Brock Purdy: "Yes."