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There's a real moral imperative in being an organization that takes the time to sit and listen to the customers and the people they're serving.
The best, very best scammers will always ask for your advice. This is their favorite technique. It makes them vulnerable. It flatters your ego.
When I was 22, I was thrown out of graduate school and then fired from three jobs in a row at higher and higher salaries where I saved nothing.
Excellence is everything today, and most people aren't excellent. If you're not excellent - like truly excellent at what you do - you're toast.
Media companies, under the guise of piracy, are asking congress to give them more control over fair use. Hollywood wants to control innovation.
Google is in an amazing position to be the target of tons of lawsuits that will set precedent for many important things for us on the Internet.
Traditional businesses can say, 'We're going to sell widgets to people, and it will make X amount of profit.' But new business models are hard.
I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.
Nobody has really grasped yet the great wealth that can be made selling data over the Web. There are 100 million potential customers out there.
While the Marshall Plan was important for Europe's recovery, Europe's prosperity was really built on economic integration and policy coherence.
I was an economist now turning into a human being - as if these are two different things. I don't know but I did that and then I had no vision.
If the basic structure of Grameen is changed, the worry is that the poor women who are the rightful owners of the bank will be disenfranchised.
I think the fashion industry was slightly put off by people they didn't know. They were presented with things like 20-gatefold color brochures.
You can no longer just have a magazine that shows you this glossy impervious image of women - in the studio, artificial, wearing a push-up bra.
I've got a passion for solving a problem that I think I can solve in a new way. And that maybe it helps that nobody has done it before as well.
The idea that maybe you don't have to own a car if you only need one occasionally may catch on, just like time-sharing caught on in real estate
We've gone through the operating system and looked at everything and asked how can we simplify this and make it more powerful at the same time.
We live in an information economy. The problem is that information's usually impossible to get, at least in the right place, at the right time.
What's new is this amazingly efficient distribution system for stolen property called the Internet - and no one's gonna shut down the Internet.
I think money is a wonderful thing because it enables you to do things. It enables you to invest in ideas that don't have a short-term payback.
We really need to put the best we have to offer within reach of our children. If we don't do that, we're going to get the generation we deserve.
Your financial success is directly related to the size of the problem you solve for other people (solve BIG problems and you'll make BIG money).
If you like a person you say 'let's go into business together.' Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.
Network marketing itself is always one-on-one. It's also called relationship marketing. You can't recruit en masse through thousands of e-mails.
Don't ever be afraid to hire people that are smarter than you. Just because they are smarter than you doesn't mean they have to make more money.
What works on the net works for people in general. The net has very little to do with technology, what matters is how people use the technology.
And C++ programming languages, we own those, have licensed them out multiple times, obviously. We have a lot of royalties coming to us from C++.
I think that as the market moves and costs get higher and fares get higher, it always creates opportunity. That's been the cycle over the years.
I had a little delivery van, and I did work around Queens. I was also a waiter at Red Lobster, so I was working on the business in between jobs.
As a kid, I was less interested in the physical tinkering than thinking about what we would now call the physics, as opposed to the engineering.
We're working on ways to make potable water from polluted water, whether it has organics in it or salt from the ocean, at very low energy input.
The down market favours the small two-, three-, four-person company, not the huge company with 100 people losing half a million dollars a month.
What matters is: Are you profitable? Are you building something great? Are you taking care of your people? Are you treating your customers well?
If an employee can demonstrate results produced in a way that the company didn't think possible, then a new way forward can begin to take shape.
I did parallel entrepreneurship, which was very hard to do. It was hard to keep your head straight and know which ideas were with which company.
A team aligned behind a vision will move mountains. Sell them on your roadmap and don't compromise - care about the details, the fit and finish.
Twitter became a major place to find out what was breaking on the Internet. Facebook became a place to share links. Social media really grew up.
'Made in Italy' is from the tycoons of the '80s, not me. It is people who represent an Italy which I don't belong to and I don't feel a part of.
At Microsoft, they all rock back and forth like Gates, they wear the same glasses, they have the same hair style. Maybe they grow them in tanks.
Many people bypass search engines altogether and still find what they're looking for online. These Internet surfers are using direct navigation.
It takes sometimes years in the market to get the tuning to the right place where your game is as compelling at level 100 as it was at level 10.
Individuals sometimes feel insignificant and doubt that one person can really make a difference in this world. Well, believe me, one person can.
Nobody in Africa loves to be a beggar or a recipient of aid. Everywhere I go in Africa, people say, 'When are we going to stand up on our feet?'
If there is one thing I have learned on this incredible journey we call life, it is this: the sign of a truly successful individual is humility.
I believe that incentivized prizing is the best solution to help unlock the answers to the some of the profound problems that plague our planet.
It is always great to see technology leaders like Ginni Rometty, Marissa Mayer, and Meg Whitman breaking through as a new generation of leaders.
One of the mistakes we'll make because we're human beings is to believe that your vision is a fact. That's the natural optimism of human beings.
We now understand the distinction between startups - who search for a business model - versus existing companies - that execute a business plan.
The idea that maybe you don't have to own a car if you only need one occasionally may catch on, just like time-sharing caught on in real estate.
Kick-start your brain. New ideas come from watching something, talking to people, experimenting, asking questions and getting out of the office!