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Too little process and you can't get good work done. Too much process and you can't get any work done. Most companies never find the middle.
You'll learn more in a day talking to customers than a week of brainstorming, a month of watching competitors, or a year of market research.
The Body Shop Foundation is run by our staff and supports social activism and environmental activism. We don't tend to support big agencies.
When people start serving together, they forgot about all their stress, [...] all their own problems. They start focusing on someone else's.
Every tomorrow has two handles. You can take hold of the handle of anxiety or the handle of enthusiasm. Upon your choice so will be the day.
Many parents make the mistake of giving love and approval to their children only when their children do something that they want them to do.
Every study of high achieving men and women proves that greatness in life is only possible when you become outstanding at your chosen field.
No matter what you accomplish, when you're doing something you're truly passionate about... the opportunities are always going to be bigger.
I've read hundreds of cookbooks. Most of those cookbooks don't even tell you how to get a steak ready, how to bake biscuits or an apple pie.
An entrepreneur must pitch a potential investor for what the company is worth as well as sell the dream on how much of a profit can be made.
If I think something is right, I'll fight for it - always have. If it's wrong or I've been proved wrong, I'll walk away, and I'll apologise.
It doesn't matter if the glass is half empty or half full. Be grateful you have a glass - your the only person that can decide what's in it.
Notoriety is such a prized thing. Society suddenly wants your opinion on things - everyone from your mom to an editor at The New York Times.
Social media, like blogs, are truth-seeking technologies. In fact, the Internet itself is the greatest truth-generating device ever created.
Fix a few things here, improve a few things there, launch a new feature every so often. That's coasting. And I don't want Basecamp to coast.
Who you work with is even more important than who you hang out with because you spend a lot more time with your workmates than your friends.
The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it's so easy to be motivated.
The best way to be productive is to have a great team. So I spend more time than most CEOs on human resources. That's 20 percent of my week.
When you look at what makes America great, what makes America, you know, not great, our ups and our downs, Springfield represents all of it.
I love challenging the notion that, in order to be a tech founder, you have to be holed up in a dark room wearing a T-shirt and baggy jeans.
My passion for innovation and my interest in the 'business of science' has seen Biocon commercialize many innovative platforms and products.
Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working with people.
When I mentor, I tell people that don't have to look like a supermodel but you have got to feel your best, look your best, and be confident.
I made my money in an honest way. And I have declared it all. By co-founding Infosys along with Mr. Murthy and others, I earned financially.
I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.
The big problem that UWink had was we were essentially building tablets because they hadn't been invented yet. That drove up the cost a lot.
In the next decade we plan to create the first gender balance engineering school in Africa. We believe women should be part of the solution.
Build a platform - prepare for the unexpected...you' ll know you're successful when the platform you've built serves you in unexpected ways.
Fibre optic is becoming like electricity. If you look at how electricity spread around the globe 100 years ago, that's what's happening now.
We believe that when the right talent meets the right opportunity in a company with the right philosophy, amazing transformation can happen.
I struggled to get through high school. I didn't get to go to college. But it made me realize you can do anything if you want to bad enough.
At the end of the day, VCs have to provide their limited partners with great returns, or they aren't going to be able to raise another fund.
I think it took us nine years to get one million subscribers to AOL, and then in the next nine years we went from one million to 35 million.
Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.
The stereotypical successful entrepreneur is Mark Zuckerberg - the young college dropout who dreamed up a crazy idea while in his dorm room.
It is one of the great paradoxes of the stock market that what seems too high usually goes higher and what seems too low usually goes lower.
Giving builds loyal customers and turns those customers into supporters...You can find passion and profit and meaning all at once, right now.
Difficulties come not to obstruct, but to instruct. Within every setback or obstacle lie seeds of an equal or greater benefit or opportunity.
The law of cause and effect: If you do what other successful people do, you will eventually get the results that other successful people get.
It came to me that the one thing I could do was cook. And I figured I couldn't do any worse than the people running these places around town.
People don't really look forward to flying that much. It's like they want to get to the place, but they don't look forward to the experience.
Think about the way most companies currently hire. You post a job and then get blind resumes in response. This should be a social experience.
I like people that challenge their art, not only in the purist way, but also in terms of how they could provoke and make something different.
Teaching is probably the most difficult of all current jobs for an AI to manage. If you don't believe that, then you have never truly taught.
We had such a dedicated and interested audience that they provided the opportunity to do cool new things - and we like doing cool new things.
If you don't give up, you still have a chance. And when you are small, you have to be very focused and rely on your brain, not your strength.
Luck is very important. Of course you can't wait for luck, because it won't come. While you start a journey, luck may eventually come to you.
An entrepreneur is someone who, almost artistically, designs a living entity which embodies the values, beliefs, and ambitions of the creator
Back in the '90s, folks were not sure if they could trust the Web, and frankly, a lot of the services back then didn't provide massive value.
When you can't see someone all day long, the only thing you have to evaluate is the work. A lot of the petty evaluation stats just melt away.