David Plotz Quotes

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• Changing the way we talk is not political correctness run amok. It reflects an admirable willingness to acknowledge others who once were barely visible to…
• So while the name Redskins is only a bit offensive, it’s extremely tacky and dated—like an old aunt who still talks about ‘colored people’ or…
• Any suggestion that Mexicans are fundamentally different from Americans should be taken as racist on its face; America, after all, is a pluralistic society, and…
• It's much easier to hire really great people like that in New York and in Brooklyn in particular, than it is in Washington.
• And my wife is - you know my wife, Hanna Rosin - it's hard, there's no doubt. We have three kids, and it's a pain.…
• I have blocks of time where I'm working intently on something.
• What is Atlas Obscura? So, it was a small digital media company. It's an atlas, it's literally like, an atlas of places, wonderful, unusual places.
• The New York Times is the greatest media company around, arguably, and the people at the New York Times know a lot more about making…
• I think I did 97 pitch meetings, and even at the 97th meeting, there were questions I was getting that I hadn't had in the…
• I should say, the one thing you run into is, if you're trying to raise a round you have to decide, well, how much money…
• People who tend to invest are either going to invest in something where you're raising $5 million or they're going to invest in something where…
• My buddy Alex Blumberg learned - he was very public about his learning process, and I know for a fact because we sat next to…
• You're talking to investors - and investors, they look at you and they realize, you know, not every business they invest in are the founders…
• The process of just being in front of people, having to stand up for your ideas, and ask - and then ask people for money,…
• People found it unusual to leave a job where you're the boss.
• I sound like an evangelist or something.
• Slate is not a political magazine but a lot of what it does is politics.
• That economics and finance are often covered as technical subjects, sort of boring subjects, and either you already know a lot about it and you…
• Writing a column, a weekly column for the New York Times, is really tough, and I wasn't prepared for the demands that that involved.
• When you're writing for the New York Times someone reading it knows the topic better than you do and knows when you've messed up.

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