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When I think about music in the future, I don't make a distinction between what's radio, what used to be the music library, and so on.
I think you want to show a level of transparency that breeds trust. You don't want to show a level of desperation that breeds concern.
I aim to combine all the things I do in a comprehensive and holistic fashion that benefits startups and the people who make them grow.
I have two iPhones: one for day and one for the night. When the day phone runs out, the night phone takes over. I never have to worry.
It doesn't matter if you call it a boom or a bubble. The startup business moves in cycles, and what goes up will eventually come down.
A closed plant is like a cemetery; it really is. The walls will talk to you; the machines will talk to you if you really talk to them.
Unlike the objective of far too many companies, manufacturing is not about a quick 'exit.' It is centered on long-term value creation.
I have seen that traditional approaches to charity and aid don't solve problems of poverty. In fact, too often they create dependence.
It's hard to know which stars in the sky will turn into black holes. And which ones will open up worm holes into entire new universes.
With the amount of fixed expense that goes into developing something like the BE-4 engine, you want it to be used as much as possible.
I'll be out having a good time and stick my gum on the side of my cup - I know, it's a horrible habit - and people will steal the cup.
You have to learn to get comfortable being uncomfortable. You have to be willing to get out of your comfort zone and push your limits.
I don't look at Spotify or Rdio or any of these guys as a direct competitor: I look at other forms of entertainment as the competitor.
The best companies in the world have all had predecessors. 'YouTube' was a dating site. You always have to evolve into something else.
When you're dealing with machines or anything that you build, it either works or it doesn't, no matter how good of a salesman you are.
Pathetic Earthlings... There's not enough makeup in the universe to cover those hideous, age-ravaged potato sacks that you call faces.
The secret is to try and do 75% of the things you're really passionate about and maybe 25% doing the shitty jobs that have to be done.
In high school, I started my first company, called M Cubed Software. We named it that because it was me and two other guys named Mike.
Celtel established a mobile phone network in Africa at a time when investors told me that there was no market for mobile phones there.
We owe it to our children to equip them with all the capabilities they'll need to thrive in the limitless world beyond the classrooms.
When you experience a failure as a leader, don't hide it - talk about it. Your missed opportunity will encourage others to take risks.
I guess I'd like to be known for being an innovator, fostering creativity, thinking outside the box. You know, keeping people playful.
In software speed to market, speed to learning is really key. In hardware if you screw it up you are dead. So accuracy really matters.
Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.
No matter how well things are going, failure and disaster are just around the corner. So celebrate the good, but be ready for the bad.
Sometimes things are the way they are and can't be changed, other times it's because no one ever tried. Your job is to find the latter.
The Internet of Money, bitcoin, is releasing 50 yrs. of pent up innovation in finance, because it offers innovation without permission.
The fact of the matter is that the Internet has brought together millions of people who trust one another for reasons that are unknown.
It is not what you say or hope or wish or intend but only what you do that counts. Your choices tell you unerringly who you really are.
Between you and every goal that you wish to achieve, there is a series of obstacles, and the bigger the goal, the bigger the obstacles.
If you don't educate yourself, you'll never get out of the starting block because you'll spend all your money making foolish decisions.
We can't live any more in a world which is based on stuff and not ideas. If you want to live with the world of stuff, we're all doomed.
Lots of people ask me for advice as if I somehow have found some easy way to create a solution to a problem, and there's no such thing.
You want to hire # entrepreneurs , people who are natural problem solvers -- the ones who see opportunity when most see impossibility.
Your bosses simply hate you. You created more and more value. They paid you less and less. That's the definition of disdain in my book.
Journalists have misquoted people for so long - and quoted them out of context that for many people like to have their words on record.
Technology has brought us to a point in which hundreds of millions if not billions of people have a voice, each voice can now be heard.
Anytime you take someone's money, that puts enormous pressure. But I think if you want the most reward, you have to take the most risk.
Everybody told me I was making a mistake by going into this business, but I know how to grow hair as well as I know how to grow cotton.
Some folks have suggested that, using WordPress, Prologue, and RSS, you could create a pretty effective distributed version of Twitter.
The promise of the early web was that everyone could have a website but there was something missing. Maybe the technology wasn't ready.
Touching clothes is just shopping foreplay, but it's changing. After all, you don't need to try a Mercedes to know that you'd like one.
Your initial idea may or may not work, but you have to remember that a failed idea is nothing but a stepping stone to a bigger success.
I must confess I've always had a couple of pinball machines in my home and really have enjoyed some of the old classics, like Fireball.
There are people who make a hobby of telling others what they can do and what they can't do. I've learnt to not listen to those people.
Education is a bubble in a classic sense. To call something a bubble, it must be overpriced, and there must be an intense belief in it.
I'm on the Facebook board now. Little did they know that I thought Facebook was really stupid when I first heard about it back in 2005.
A product needs to be sufficiently innovative to distinguish itself from the pack, but not so forward thinking as to alienate the user.
You don't have to be a Christian to work at Chick-fil-A, but we ask you to base your business on biblical principles because they work.
It's a silent witness to the Lord when people go into shopping malls, and everyone is bustling, and you see that Chick-fil-A is closed.