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SPAM is taking e-mail, which is a wonderful tool, and exploiting the idea that it's very inexpensive to send mail.
It’s been proven that of all the interventions to reduce poverty, improving agricultural productivity is the best.
We [Corbis] make it so easy to call up images, whether art or people or beaches or sunsets or Nobel Prize winners.
Twitter can afford to build the wrong things. However, Twitter cannot afford to build the right things too slowly.
Many investors seem to have forgotten a hard reality: There are frequent periods when stock markets don't do much.
If you really believe that every three years the market will double, then go and buy shares. I don't believe that.
I can lose three million dollars because it's just paper. Thus, my lifestyle is not dependent up the stock market.
Unfortunately, in a recession, the people who suffer the most aren't the rich, but the wanna-be rich and the poor.
Knowing the edge of your competency is important. If you think you know more than you do, you will get in trouble.
Do what you love and work for whom you admire the most, and you've given yourself the best chance in life you can.
If you think about it: a big bank in any country, what is it? Really, as an investment, it's a warrant on economy.
Always remember that market quotations are there for convenience, either to be taken advantage of or to be ignored.
You've got to be willing to read other people's code, then write your own, then have other people review your code.
I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has.
Software will get to be somewhat more mature, ah, but it will never be as predictable as most areas of engineering.
In some ways, if you make mistakes with your own money, you don't feel as bad about it as if it was someone else's.
If you are low income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than getting a 4-year degree.
I'm reasonably optimistic about the future, especially the future of the United States - for the century, at least.
I would say that financial markets are very inefficient, and capable of extremes of being completely dysfunctional.
I spend about half of my time wondering why I have so much in stocks and about half wondering why I have so little.
The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea.
Would it not be strange if a universe without purpose accidentally created humans who are so obsessed with purpose?
I was facing life for the first time. I was 12 years old, but I felt like a 20 year old. I knew then what life was.
You don’t make money when you buy stocks. And you don’t make money when you sell stocks. You make money by waiting.
You don't make money when you buy stocks. And you don't make money when you sell stocks. You make money by waiting.
I know the Federal Reserve Bank can continue to print more and more money... but city and state governments cannot.
People invest in businesses that they believe have the leadership, mission and team to grow and operate profitably.
Most small-business owners have no financial education when they started. They weren't trained to be entrepreneurs.
Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
The critical investment factor is determining the intrinsic value of a business and paying a fair or bargain price.
We all make mistakes. If you can't make mistakes, you can't make decisions. I've made a lot bigger mistakes myself.
If AIG had tried to unwind their derivatives books. I don't know. It would have hit every institution in the world.
Absent some international interruption, there's no real justification for oil being more than $90 or $100 a barrel.
Solutions to all biological problems are greatly advanced by the sequencing work and the new tools that are created.
The flatter the corporate hierarchy, the more likely it is that employees will communicate bad news and act upon it.
There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw.
Kids are taking PCs and the Internet to new heights. They're the ones that are designing the cutting-edge web sites.
Natural epidemics can be extremely large. Intentionally caused epidemics, bioterrorism, would be the largest of all.
No more misquoted forms, lost invoices, redundant entries, missing checks, or delays caused by incomplete paperwork.
Experience teaches us that when "everyone" comes to the same conclusion, that conclusion is just about always wrong.
Teach your children or your grandchildren Chinese. It is going to be the most important language of their lifetimes.
New ideas that fly in the face of conventional wisdom of the day are always greeted with doubt and scorn, even fear.
What happens to us in life is less important; the real question can be whether or not we use the experience to grow.
The most successful people are mavericks who aren't afraid to ask why, especially when everyone thinks it's obvious.
In most cases, when people make more money, they get deeper in debt. This is why money alone does not make you rich.
Financial planners are salespeople. They are NOT teachers. Get your education from someone NOT getting a commission.
Any time an investment company has to spend heavily on advertising, it's probably a bad business in which to invest.
One of the reasons so many people get burned in the market is because they start buying as they see prices going up.
I did have two dads; one was a socialist, and one was a capitalist. I really decided I would rather be a capitalist.
If medical doctors can be sued for malpractice, shouldn't financial professionals practice under the same safeguard?