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Executives should blog if they have a vision they are trying to communicate, or if they are very visible in the media.
Being able to take a traditional cable-television subscriber and give them new widget type applications to me is huge.
Softbank has always been a service firm, and with the Internet, services became the center of the technology industry.
Renewables is part of social responsibility, but the information revolution is the only main thing I am interested in.
Law Number XXXIX: Never promise to complete any project within six months of the end of the year, in either direction.
When you have to earmark human and monetary resources for such a long time, it starts to hinder your other activities.
Your goal, as a creative investor, is to launch your ship into financial orbit ... and then put it on automatic pilot.
I learned from my dad that change and experimentation are constants and important. You have to keep trying new things.
There are only four things in life that matter. The first is happiness and I'll sell you the other three for a dollar.
All that hullabaloo about somebody's net worth is just stupid, and it's made my life a lot more complex and difficult.
A lot of credit goes to Google TV for helping that process get started and helping to build something like Chromecast.
War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
I thought, between sports and news and television and friendship, that you could end the Cold War and, by God, we did.
Remain close to government and away from politics. It means deal more with the authorities. And less with individuals.
Nobody who has not been up in the sky on a glorious morning can possibly imagine the way a pilot feels in free heaven.
Once you have a staff of prepared, intelligent, and energetic people, the next step is to motivate them to be creative.
Often, American audiences are underestimated by producers and movie studios. They often think we're dumber than we are.
We're delighted to be working with Apple to offer fans a new and innovative way to experience our wildly popular shows.
We have bloated bureaucracies in Corporate America. The root of the problem is the absence of real corporate democracy.
I see a New York where people who are down on their luck can get back on the road to responsibility, a job and dignity.
I try to hire people who will challenge and have the humility to be challenged - people who have basically good values.
If the legislation helps people improve their lives, then that's great because that's the ultimate goal of all of this.
I was with a special services unit in the Korean war, and when I got out, the biggest thing I got was a GI scholarship.
All you've ever seen in the UFC was the greatest athletes in the world. Never, ever did we do a freakshow and we won't.
I used to laugh at MMA and say 'do you know what a boxer would do to an MMA guy?' and then I got educated on the truth.
It's interesting that the book publishing industry, on the iPad, has much more flexibility than the music industry had.
Money has not changed me. When I look at money, each dollar represents an option of something I could not do yesterday.
Delegating doesn't mean passing off work you don't enjoy, but letting your employees stretch their skills and judgment.
There is this permanent hope in America that there is some new technology around the corner that will change the world.
You look at any giant corporation, and I mean the biggies, and they all started with a guy with an idea, doing it well.
I'd like to apologize in advance for anything I may say or do that could be construed as offensive as I slowly go nuts!
There has never been a time when a career in the Penney Company was not a challenge that brought out the best in a man.
The problem with the bronco is to get on and stay on. This is the problem with the Golden Rule-to understand and apply.
I love my father, but I have worked to develop a separate and distinct identity in different projects I have worked on.
Those of us who have yet to find philanthropy may find there is a far greater reward from it than from wealth creation.
When you start off broke - and we weren't broke, we were negative broke - you never forget that. You stay appreciative.
Yes, education is the catalyst that will hone and sharpen our talents, skills, and abilities and cause them to blossom.
Many today feel troubled and distressed; many feel that, at any moment, the ships of their lives could capsize or sink.
A little more than 30 years ago, Bernie Marcus, Arthur Blank, Pat Farrah and I got together and founded The Home Depot.
We're (also) looking for a good people person who is able to motivate others and get strong performances out of people.
Frankly, if you can sell something at $80 a tonne that cost you $20 a tonne, you might want to sell as much as you can.
Leadership means setting an example. When you find yourself in a position of leadership, people follow your every move.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
The process of really changing your skin is painful and difficult and endless. Anyone who tells you otherwise is lying.
Mankind had the agricultural revolution, the industrial revolution, and now this third one, the information revolution.
Programmatic is a great thing. Let's be clear there's a zillion websites. It's extremely difficult to address messages.
Given the typical fee structures of hedge funds, they need to do something different to make money in a consistent way.
My method for picking stocks has never changed. When businesses go from crappy to semicrappy, there's money to be made.
It would be wonderful if we could avoid the setbacks with timely exits, but nobody has figured out how to predict them.
People are always going to go shopping. A lot of our effort is just: 'How do we make the retail experience a great one?