Matt Mullenweg Quotes

I'm not starry eyed, and I'm not money crazy.

I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

I will always keep my feet on the ground.

I don't like to show off; if I have to save a ball in an ugly way, fine.

Americans are generally very self-sufficient and I think generally averse to pretension, just as I am.

Usually my ideas are small.

When I make mistakes, I just get on with it. I don't try to impress with that killer pass to make sure everybody notices me.

I'm a good example of someone who can come to Hollywood and keep their feet on the ground with all the rock stars, all the drama that goes with being here. It's still important to pump your own gas and to be able to vacuum.

I'm not someone who is glamorous all the time.

Some receivers are like sports cars: they have a lot of speed and flair. Me, I'm like an old pickup truck. I just bounce around and try to get the job done.

I'm quite grounded.

I learned over time that you do not go for the perfect solution….You do what is doable and then you want to try and do a little bit more.

I guess I'm quite practical. Or at least like to think I am.

I don't take myself that seriously. I'm a pragmatist.

I've never been a dreamer.

We do our best to keep our feet on the ground and that's how it will remain.

Even when we had new clothes, we were told not to wear them. You just didn't draw attention to yourself. Showing off was the worst thing you could do. We could put the clothes in the drawers - but not wear them.

I'm always the "less is more" guy when it comes to a scene. So I'ma be the one who will keep it grounded. Even if I let it go off and go crazy, I'm still the voice of keeping things grounded in reality.

I believe in anything that works.

People I admire have two qualities: a kind of simplicity, and generosity of spirit. It seems to me that the more impressive people are in what they have done, the simpler they tend to be in how they talk to you, or in what they say or write.

Humility is not thinking meanly of oneself, but rather it means not thinking of oneself at all.

The strongest streak in the American character is a fierce pragmatism that mistrust blind ideology of every stripe and insists on finding what really works.

There is no need to show your ability before everyone.

They see poetry in what I have done. No. I apply my methods, and that is all there is to it.

It would be an inconvenient rule if nothing could be done until everything can be done.