34 Quotes by David Plotz

Slate is not a political magazine but a lot of what it does is politics.

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 – you know, any of the 96 preceding ones.

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 you’re raising $1 million, but if you’re trying to raise $2.5 million it’s kind of a weird amount.

People found it unusual to leave a job where you’re the boss.

I know I would have learned a huge amount had I read the Bible with my rabbi. But I also would have missed a huge amount, and I would have been guided down the narrow paths where the rabbi led me, not the paths that I chose for myself.

When you have spent too much time with something, you may lose sight of what’s marvelous about it.

I made one choice, for example, which is I’m just going to confine work to working hours. I’m not going to work on the weekend. I’m not going to be working while I’m with my son in the morning and in the evening.

It’s much easier to hire really great people like that in New York and in Brooklyn in particular, than it is in Washington.

One problem with how we think about the Bible is that people tend to jam it into narrower categories, when in fact it is many things all at once.