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'Success' is a seductive word. Thousands of books have been written on the subject. They promise money, freedom, leisure, and luxury.
You can be involved in media, and you can be involved in all the handbag hurling that goes along with it, and it's a different world.
You know in the U.S. everyone has a gun in the room. That's not the reason why you go and invade the home with anti-terrorist forces.
I still work hard to know my business. I'm continuously looking for ways to improve all my companies, and I'm always selling. Always.
Why not look at Indonesia? It will be the third biggest country in the world in population in 25 years' time - after India and China.
Most of the time, when I make a big move, people say I am out of my mind. But I don't think about how I can add to what I have today.
In our society, it's been the men who've handled most of the finances, and the women who've stood by and watched men botch things up.
Younger adult smokers are the only source of replacement smokers If younger adults turn away from smoking, the industry must decline.
Each person assesses each other person's credibility on different dimensions, because people are strong and weak in different things.
Communicate everything you can to your associates. The more they know, the more they care. Once they care, there is no stopping them.
I've lived the American Dream and had a great life. Immigration and religion and racial tolerance are the foundation of this country.
Diversity of form factor matters, and not compromising either form factor. You need diversity of price point. That's quite important.
I think fashion is the best value way, the most affordable way in the 21st century, that men and women can express their personality.
Always remember that your personality is your big asset. Do not try to emulate another person. Real personality comes from the heart.
Don't ever let your business get ahead of the financial side of your business. Accounting, accounting, accounting. Know your numbers.
We like to say at Khosla Ventures, and this is one of the reasons to do what we do, we'll take technical risks that nobody else will.
We treat employees as a member of the family. If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
I have been quoted saying that, in the future, all companies will be Internet companies. I still believe that. More than ever, really.
You have to be responsible when you're running an organization, and firing people who are your friends is part of that responsibility.
The person who I admire most in business is Warren Buffett. He is a long-term investor and has brilliant ideas, and he sticks to them.
You can't allow tradition to get in the way of innovation. There's a need to respect the past, but it's a mistake to revere your past.
I don't have an endgame. My game is to take on any bad guys I see out there. And do the best I can until they put me under the carpet.
I'm intent on marketing Jamaica. Jamaica has the best coffee, the best sugar, the best ginger and some of the best cocoa in the world.
Twitter is very impulsive and impermanent and you only have 140 characters. There is no greater 'Emperor' of Twitter than Stephen Fry.
I don't believe in 50 friends. I believe in a smaller number. Nor do I care about society events. It's the most senseless use of time.
One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life.
We don't have a war on terror - that's a technique. We didn't have a war on blitzkriegs, and we didn't have a war on surprise attacks.
From morning when I wake up until I go to sleep, I am working. I go to bed and I want to switch off, but the brain doesn't switch off.
A mediocre person tells. A good person explains. A superior person demonstrates. A great person inspires others to see for themselves.
Problems should be solved on the spot, as soon as they arise. No front-line employee should have to wait for a supervisor's permission
In spite of all this noise, customers are still definitely buying in North America, and they're really, really buying internationally.
I suppose I have very undesirable traits. I am very critical, which is very undesirable. But it is good from a business point of view.
Our primary goal in the consumer health service companies I back is helping them create an uncompromisingly great consumer experience.
The spiritual self of each of us is that part of us that will never grow old, or ill, or die, but it must be nurtured and invigorated!
If you do everything that everyone else does in business, you're going to lose. The only way to really be ahead, is to 'be different'.
Execution is a systematic process of rigorously discussing hows and whats, tenaciously following through, and ensuring accountability.
The primary skill of a manager consists of knowing how to make assignments and picking the right people to carry out those assignments
Incompetency begets incompetency. The last thing a guy who isn't sure of himself wants is a guy backing him up who is sure of himself.
Italy is famous for fashion, food, Ferrari, and furniture - furniture was a segment where the companies in the high end are all small.
If I own stock in your company and you move offshore for tax reasons I'm selling your stock. There are enough investment choices here.
When you turn your team upside down and try to figure out what the culture of the team is, you take the greatest risk a team can take.
To many of you, Sprint may seem like a burden for SoftBank. But in my view, Sprint is going to be one of SoftBank's primary cash cows.
I don't care whether the technology is invented by our employees. I want to bring everybody's innovations into our ecosystem together.
It doesn't matter whether it comes in by cable, telephone lines, computor, or satellite. Everyone's going to have to deal with Disney.
Inspiration leads to invention. Tenacity is the breeding ground for inspiration. There can be no invention in the absence of tenacity.
If we can become the de facto standard for image capture of unique perspectives around the world, we have a lot of growth ahead of us.
Everyone has an idea over time of what the business should be, and during the formative period, too many opinions could be disruptive.
One doesn't have to be a large corporation to benefit from the advantages of volume. This can also be achieved through joint ventures.
To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
In the workplace, employees should be judged on their merit and hard work and not on aspects that are irrelevant to their performance.