Ryan Merchant quotes

  • Some people see streaming as a bad thing because of the royalty amount paid, but as more and more people get on these services and stream music all day long, you'll be able to generate quite a bit of income from streaming.
    -- Ryan Merchant

    #Long #People #Income

  • I love visiting the Air and Space Museum. It always blows my mind how far we've come from the Wright Brothers in 1906 to modern space travel.
    -- Ryan Merchant

    #Brother #Blow #Museums

  • Focus on creating really good music and a great live show before doing anything else. If you have these two things in place, the other aspects of the business are much easier and almost take care of themselves.
    -- Ryan Merchant

    #Two #Creating #Focus

  • Tell me not here, it needs not saying, What tune the enchantress plays In aftermaths of soft September Or under blanching mays, For she and I were long acquainted And I knew all her ways.

  • The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.

  • A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.

  • You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.

  • Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'

  • My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.

  • Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.

  • The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no claim to our income. Only sales, excise, and tariff taxes were allowed.

  • Gorilla tourism is vital to Rwanda's economy: It's the third highest source of income.

  • I'm against an income tax because all the rich people hire lawyers and accountants to be sure that they don't pay income tax.