Graydon Carter Quotes

Old and young disbelieve one another's truths.

Certainly I get a lot personally out of it as well, there's the recognition and things like that but mostly I try to take that as an opportunity to explain why I hope we could see more projects like Apache out there and why it's a good thing for society.

I think the younger generation, the people poised to dominate the workforce, are more socially conscious. They are more demanding in terms of environment and how that environment contributes to their life.

It's hard to be a good philanthropist in China.

Profits should be for a purpose. Profits should be productive. You should make money for producing benefits that make the world a better place. Making money is a good thing when it is made in service to humanity or the democracy.

There's good and bad everywhere in any aspect in life. The only people who we can't really trust are politicians. Because those guys lie to everybody and constantly.

Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us.

I didn’t intend for it to be seen by the public…. I wanted to stimulate reflection and an internal debate.

I don't attach any labels to myself and if I can be of any help to Kerala in terms of thinking about some of the economic issues there, provide my input which can be taken or discarded, I thought that would be a good thing to do.

It's hypocritical to say when things are going well, 'Interview me. Ask me how great I am. Ask me about family and personal life.' At some point later, when someone wants information and you want to draw the line, how do you do that?

I know people that make similar content to me who are 30 or 40 years old. So I don't think there is an age limit to it at all.

My experiences building Palantir and running Addepar made me aware of serious problems with government and inspired me to build a non-profit to look into state spending.

As a photographer, there are times when I have to decide if it's appropriate to invade a moment with my camera.

I think having a healthy distrust of authority is a good thing, within certain parameters, obviously.

People pay attention to artists and celebrities, so they have the opportunity to do something great with this limelight. I, for one, have no problem with Kanye running for president, because if it's something that he truly believes in and it can lead to greater good, why not? I'm all for that.

I never get asked out by men my own age, as they all want to go out with 20-year-olds, and the men that do ask me out are too young.

I don't want to get into specifics of how I communicate with people, but I will say that people are concerned about being monitored.

They say that the older you get, the more conservative you become: perhaps that's the reason there are no Tories in Scotland.

Millennials want to work for organizations that prioritize purpose as well as profit. It's as simple as that.

I don't feel the need to share the truth with people that I don't know.

When you're in the National Football League, and you get this window where all eyes are on you, you can use that. You can use that platform for good.

You have to get the balance right, especially with public health, so that you take the measures that benefit the public's health but without causing people to resent you so that you actually don't cure the ill that you seek to cure.

I'd like young people to seek my advice, and trust that the decades I have lived through have added to my abilities to be a valuable contributor to the workplace and society.

Generational thinking has always been reductive and condescending.

We're making a lot of changes at Gap Inc., but as our Social Responsibility Report demonstrates, doing business the right way is still extremely important to us.