When I was a teenager I loved snowboarding, but in my 20s I was too big to strap my feet in the boards.
“When I was a teenager I loved snowboarding, but in my 20s I was too big to strap my feet in the boards.”
— Corey Harrison · Boards
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When I was a teenager I loved snowboarding, but in my 20s I was too big to strap my feet in the boards.
“When I was a teenager I loved snowboarding, but in my 20s I was too big to strap my feet in the boards.”
— Corey Harrison · Boards
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“When I was a teenager I loved snowboarding, but in my 20s I was too big to strap my feet in the boards.”
“One of the perks is when John Mayer calls you up and tells you, 'Hey, buddy, I just bought a ranch in Montana. When are you gonna come by? When are we gonna hang out?' It's just not something I ever expected to happen.”
“You know, life hasn't changed that much for me. It's just, everything's gotten a little nicer. I drive a nicer car. I live in a nicer house.”
“It's funny because from the time I was a kid, I knew what I was going to do. What's even funnier is that my dad and my grandfather didn't want me to work at the pawn shop, but I was deadset on it.”
“I wake up at 5:30 in the morning, get to the Pawn Shop at six, work out for two hours, film until seven at night.”
“I put urinals in all my houses. They save marriages.”
“Boards and myself get along somehow.”
“I have turned off Google Alerts and don't Google my name or my pen names. I don't go on message boards. I don't read my book reviews.”
“We're long past having to defend or explain why women should be on boards, given all the data that shows how companies with female as well as male directors perform better. It's unfortunate when companies with a large percentage of women constituents don't reflect that in their boardrooms.”
“Shining a light on issues like the gender pay gap and whether firms are imposing and meeting targets is how diversity gets pushed up the priority lists of boards. Greater transparency allows for more effective scrutiny.”
“One thing I'm so grateful for is sidestepping the usual venture capital, private equity route. My friends who have gone that way are many times beholden to their boards of directors, to 'sell' ideas to a team.”
“We just lost Carol Channing, who performed 'Hello, Dolly!' at the St. James Theatre. I played the St. James Theatre as well. To know that you walked the same boards as somebody like that is so extraordinary.”