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When you can sell [empty seats] at the gate for an upgrade for 500 bucks or 600 bucks... it makes all the sense in the world.
Everyone has an idea, but it’s taking those first steps toward turning that idea into a reality that are always the toughest.
Whether people know it or not, I'm a big nature guy. I like snowboarding, I like fishing, and those are my ways to wind down.
We live in a world where virtually everybody expects there's going to be some reasonable therapy for virtually any situation.
I've been part of founding three companies that have gone public. It doesn't seem like a big number, but it's actually a lot.
Every time we can't drill a well in America, terrorism is being funded. Every onerous regulation puts American lives at risk.
Don't time travel into the past, roaming through the nuances as if they can change. Don't bookmark pages you've already read.
I got a lot of great life lessons from the entertainment industry. The first was being able to feel comfortable taking risks.
The math helps you have better understanding and helps you have more creative ideas, but you can't replace the creative ideas
Innovation and commerce are as powerful tools for creating social progress as they are for driving technological advancement.
I'm a freestyle creative entrepreneur. Not a businessman. I like to create ventures in which creativity stands at the centre.
I like my country, but I don't think like an Italian. It's a complex, complicated difficult country to make things happen in.
We worked personally with a lot of great VCs. They just work incredibly hard at supporting entrepreneurs and their companies.
Clearly as you move to being a public company, probably even more than growth, there is a huge value based on predictability.
good people managers are likely to listen more than they speak. Perhaps that's why we were given two ears and only one mouth.
I don't have a mentor in the strict definition. I take as much advice and inspiration as I can from the people I am close to.
I understand human needs. I grew up where far too many people lived day to day without elemental needs like food and shelter.
There are only two kinds of businesses in this world: Businesses in crazy competition, and businesses that are one of a kind.
Silicon Valley tends to be very myopic - to be focused on one or two things - which has some strengths as well as weaknesses.
Normally when I have students over, we sit in the house and look at the fields to try to catch a glimpse of a bobcat hunting.
Understand that VCs are simply a sophisticated form of financial investors who, in turn, need to satisfy their own investors.
When we hire someone, even if they are going to be in marketing, I will have them talk to the design folks and the engineers.
You've probably had somebody punch you in the stomach and it knocks the wind of you and you can't breathe. That's how I felt.
When I became an entrepreneur, I had the knowledge to develop and manage budgets, market products and review legal contracts.
FOOD is the most widely abused anti-anxiety drug in America, and EXERCISE is the most potent yet underutilized antidepressant.
I built RPM Italian, a restaurant I frequent as much as I can, because that is what people from Chicago do. They build things.
When you incorporate giving into your business in an authentic and transparent way, your customers become your best marketers.
Never focus on your problems. Focus on your possibilities. The problems will pull you down. The possibilities will push you up
Your biggest opportunity probably lies under your own feet, in your current job, industry, education, experience or interests.
People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.
Many of the most successful men and women in the world never graduated from college. They attended the school of life instead.
I believe every person has within themselves inexhaustible reserves of potential they have never even come close to realizing.
The mark of the superior thinker is his or her ability to accurately predict the consequences of doing or not doing something.
Jim Rohn is outstanding! He is among the most polished, professional speakers in America, with a message everyone should hear.
If I feel that somebody is hurting other people, then I'm going to make sure other people know - other people know about them.
I work hard, so I surround myself with people that work just as hard. It's important if you want to create a successful brand.
I was deeply uncertain of who I was and who I wanted to be. I really thought I wanted to be a much cooler guy than what I was.
There are a lot of things that are uncomfortable and hard to do, and the longer you put off those things, the harder they get.
Path does not spam users. Invites on Path are never sent without a user's consent - any allegations to the contrary are false.
I've spent quite a bit of time working on wind turbines and exploring control systems and photovoltaic and integration system.
While GeoCities isn't cool, it isn't a bad thing. It did a great thing - enabled great people to instantly publish to the Web.
If the 'Post' can play the role of a connector between the West and the East, I have confidence in the paper's future success.
May each of you live lives of immersion. They won't necessarily be easy lives. But in the end, it is all that will sustain us.
One of the first things that surprised me in a positive, wonderfully positive way, is that this works - patient capital works.
You can say no to people who make you feel bad about yourself. To people who backstab you or make you feel anxious in any way.
Poker is a charismatic game. People who are larger than life play poker and make their living from playing games and hustling.
For three or four decades, we've been sitting here in front of this TV consuming a one-way medium that we had no control over.
Until you use the iPad for a couple of weeks, you can't appreciate it. But it quickly becomes your primary consumption device.
It turns out a human being in two, three or four hours can build a search result that's much better than Google, Yahoo or Ask.
I don't think I have ever worked in my life, because work to me means that you are really doing something that you don't like.