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There's something exceptional about watching a video and simultaneously thinking 'That was genius!' and 'I could have done that!'
The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow.
We ought to have more women in various management positions, because women are the ones who decide almost everything in the home.
You have to learn to ask questions in a way that will elicit more nuanced answers, rather than the answers you would like to get.
Hiring people is like making friends. Pick good ones, and they'll enrich your life. Make bad choices, and they'll bring you down.
The most important single thing is to focus obsessively on the customer. Our goal is to be earth's most customer-centric company.
I was networking every day from 21 to 28 years old. I sent 10 letters a day, which means I reached out to 3,000 people in a year.
The fact is that 'free' in music streaming is so technically good and ubiquitous that it's stunting the growth of paid streaming.
You know you've built a product that can hit the mainstream when your wife, your father, and your mother-in-law can get involved.
I don't do a ton of deals a year, and I really like working with startups - it's the only way I can invest. It fits my ADD brain.
I am proposing to create another kind of business, based on "selflessness" that is in all of us. I am calling it social business.
Net-a-porter is an environment where a woman can really indulge, browsing through more than 160 brands in our fashion playground.
Net-a-Porter offers catwalk fashion and trend-driven shopping, but for Mr Porter, while fashion is still important, style is key.
I was raised with the notion that you can do pretty much do anything you want. I always kind of just went ahead and tried things.
The underpinnings of the alliance: the company helps the employee transform his career; the employee helps the company transform.
People are legitimately worried about Donald Trump, almost like a schoolyard bully, if I step up, am I going to be targeted, too?
Assumption Theory: The only safe assumption in life is that the person who assures you that everything is all right is all wrong.
Face-to-face customer feedback refines or validates every component of the startup's business model, not just the product itself.
It's silly for me to raise expectations too much, but I think I'm right on the basic trend, which is shifting power to consumers.
There are no road signs to help navigate. And, in fact, no one has yet determined which side of the road we're supposed to be on.
Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.
People need to have the incentive that if they invest and succeed, they can make a fair profit. Otherwise they'll stop investing.
Innovation is hard because solving problems people didn't know they had & building something no one needs look identical at first.
Focus too much on the near-term and you won't get tomorrow's customers, focus too much on the long-term and you won't get today's.
Modularize, don't customize. Build a platform as opposed to building all of the custom technology and custom vertical experiences.
Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and shopping involve a moral choice.
I believe its a lifestyle choice and like any lifestyle choice it will be what you make of it and how fully you live and enjoy it.
With breast cancer, it's all about detection. You have to educate young women and encourage them to do everything they have to do.
I'm not a late-night person. After 10 P.M., I'm falling asleep. If I'm out at that time, I'll be the one falling asleep at dinner.
Your outer world of attitudes, wealth, work, relationships and health will always be a reflection of your inner attitudes of mind.
One quality of leaders and high achievers in every area seems to be a commitment to ongoing personal and professional development.
Approach each customer with the idea of helping him or her solve a problem or achieve a goal, not of selling a product or service.
Happiness and high come to you when you choose to live your life consistent with your highest values and your deepest convictions.
Flood your life with ideas from many sources. Creativity needs to be exercised like a muscle. If you don't use it, you'll lose it!
Perhaps the greatest display of self-discipline is persisting when the going gets tough. Persistence is self-discipline in action.
Salespeople are the most important people in any organization. Until a salesperson gets an order, nobody in the company has a job.
Five to 10 years from now, if not sooner, the vast majority of 'The New Republic' readers are likely to be reading it on a tablet.
The earlier you invest, the higher that attrition rate is because it's compounded. We have a more scientific method of investment.
In mobile, people really love having single-use case experiences. They want low friction to getting to the application's use case.
Good grooming is integral, and impeccable style is a must. If you don't look the part, no one will want to give you time or money.
Where micro-finance focuses on small loans to individual, low-income women, think of Acumen Fund more like a venture capital fund.
A lot of times, people send me emails, and then I forget about them, or I never respond to them, or I respond to them weeks later.
You'll have to hire people to expand your business. But it's a good discipline to really question if you need each and every hire.
Selling to small businesses and selling to enterprises take two very different approaches with two very different kinds of people.
If you invent frequently and are willing to fail, then you never get to that point where you really need to bet the whole company.
There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.
Any business plan won't survive its first encounter with reality. The reality will always be different. It will never be the plan.
If you have a business model that relies on customers being misinformed, you better start working on changing your business model.
The best gift you can give yourself is getting over the fear of embarrassment because then you're completely free to try anything.