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Failure happens to everyone in this game. It's not something worth harping on. What is worth focusing on is how you respond to that failure.
We like to believe we can break strategy down to Five Forces or Seven Ss. But you can't. Strategy is extraordinarily emotional and demanding.
History shows fans want consolidation; you see it across the web every place. The big players are people like Google, Amazon, eBay, Facebook.
We dont have a good legal justification for breaking up the banking system. But if I could wave a magic wand, Id break up the banking system.
We want to try and transform the Red Sox into a team like the Braves or the Yankees, where you can almost count on the postseason every year.
The AZ captain Teun Koopmeiners, a left-footed centre back who can sit in midfield, is probably the best player in Holland in defensive areas.
I understand the intensity of the supporters. I wonder how they could turn up for work on Monday morning after we lost 5-1 to Manchester City.
I thought work and family complete life. Aarti's enthusiasm and energy levels made me realise that life can be even more wholesome and fuller.
I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.
In our firm's earliest days, our understanding of the power of great software engineering and quantitative analytics helped Citadel stand out.
Unfortunately, in the environment, I don't see as much willingness to invest heavily in R&D as I do in consumer technology. And that's a pity.
I don't know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not.
Many investors make the mistake of buying high and selling low while the exact opposite is the right strategy to outperform over the long term.
We don't have a good legal justification for breaking up the banking system. But if I could wave a magic wand, I'd break up the banking system.
Fundamentally cheap stocks are often held in low regard by market participants. Something may be tainting their perception in investors' minds.
The secret to global investing is gaining an insight into the hopes and desires of the people who live and work in the countries you invest in.
Good investing is a peculiar balance between the conviction to follow your ideas and the flexibility to recognize when you have made a mistake.
Everybody agrees that you want competition. But you have to have rules of fair competition if you want to have competitors to enter the market.
If you let your emotions get high, your bargaining power will be low. Make sure you don't negotiate from a position of need when making a deal.
We've reached the end of incrementalism. Only those companies that are capable of creating industry revolutions will prosper in the new economy.
Management innovation is going to be the most enduring source of competitive advantage. There will be lots of rewards for firms in the vanguard.
It is often constructive to meet with a candidate for a particular office, but I believe what is most important is the candidate's track record.
In the end, our minds and their ability to create new ideas are the ultimate source of all human wealth. That's a resource nearly without limit.
I'm a Weeble. Remember Weebles? The toy whose tagline was, 'Weebles wobble but they don't fall down?' I'm resilient. Oh, and I work really hard.
It (Arsenal) is an English club but not an English success. It's probably a greater reflection of youngsters from France and elsewhere in Europe.
Does it help Dutch teams in the Champions League because they don't have to be at it in the league? I think it does. I experienced the disparity.
To escape the curse of commoditization, a company has to be a game-changer, and that requires employees who are proactive, inventive and zealous.
A good trader has to have three things: a chronic inability to accept things at face value, to feel continuously unsettled, and to have humility.
When we build that foundation for sustained success, and it ultimately results in a World Series, it's going to be more than just a World Series.
We don't live in isolation. Most people don't like working in isolation - some do, but they typically don't end up playing Major League Baseball.
Over the years, we have gone beyond our businesses to take up philanthropic projects in diverse areas - from education to health care to skilling.
As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors.
One of the great advantages that I had in my career is I started trading 24 hours a day in my early 20s, and I had to learn to delegate to people.
Congress has repeatedly passed laws and otherwise raised a ruckus about indecent language on the broadcast airwaves used for radio and television.
I remember the first time I saw him. He was 13 and just floated over the ground like a cockier spaniel chasing a piece of silver paper in the wind.
My message is get into what you love and really want to do and can do. And there are these tests you can take for that. All the colleges have them.
It's definitely much harder to run a hedge fund today than it used to be, in my opinion. That's because there are more hedge funds to compete with.
In some industries, we refer to risk taking as 'research and development.' At financial institutions, we often take risk by investing in securities.
There aren't many sources of money in San Diego, apart from local partnerships and local investors. It's pretty starkly polarized to Silicon Valley.
Development of space will improve life on Earth. Access to space is important for agriculture, humanitarian efforts, communications, and navigation.
I think margins will be destroyed for a bunch of people. If that's true, then it will be good to have alternatives to hedge against that eventuality.
In an ideal world, an individual's institutional power would be correlated perfectly with his or her value-add. In practice, this is seldom the case.
I still think, from an individual perspective, the best deal investment you can make is to buy a primary residence that you're the owner-occupier of.
I have two basic rules about winning in trading as well as in life: 1. If you don't bet, you can't win. 2. If you lose all your chips, you can't bet.
Although investors have been concerned with China's slowing growth rate, China remains one of the largest and fastest-growing economies in the world.
Companies that put a mandated parental leave in place save money in the first year, FIRST YEAR. Because they don't have to hire to replace the woman.
I make it a priority to keep in touch with people with whom I've worked in the past. And I'm fortunate, because I've worked with some terrific folks.
Once you thrust yourself out there in the public domain, it's really hard to retreat, to say no or reclaim that certain part of your life as private.
What my parents believed was that, you know, the best wealth they could give to us children was to educate us and, you know - give us that foundation.
An employee who's one of hundreds, rather than one of a few, is unlikely to feel personally responsible for helping the organization adapt and change.