Businessman Quotes

Cooking is like snow skiing: If you don't fall at least 10 times, then you're not skiing hard enough.

I was always a kid trying to make a buck. I borrowed a dollar from my dad, went to the penny candy store, bought a dollar's worth of candy, set up my booth, and sold candy for five cents apiece. Ate half my inventory, made $2.50, gave my dad back his dollar.

My stay-married secret would probably be exercising good communication, not when you have to but all the time. I think if you do that, you kinda just cleanse the situations, so there's not build up. I think that's probably the best way to do it.

Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Good will is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

Give the lady what she wants!

I wonder if I could make an electric bass.

The design of each element should be thought out in order to be easy to make and easy to repair.

Let there be bass.

If something is easy to repair, it is easy to construct.

That's great advertising when you can turn Chicago into a city you'd want to spend more than three hours in.

Thank you for making me nouveau riche.

It goes back to all of us wanting to be in Hollywood. We're all dying to win an Oscar.

I honestly believe that advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.

A lot of its readers are of an age where they forget to cancel.

There is a great deal of advertising that is much better than the product. When that happens, all that the good advertising will do is put you out of business faster.

Well, user feedback was excellent. Even when the software didn't work at all, there were few people who were avid users, and there were people who were just sending excellent feedback and excellent ideas.

Unfortunately, the client that exists today is still pretty much the prototype design.

There really was nothing like it at the time. We had good ideas for implementation, so we proceeded. I think it was an excellent solution to the reliability issues with existing search engines.

That's why I ended up leaving school - because it required so much time, and it was such an excellent idea. I figured I would regret not going full force with this idea. It seemed we could make something of it.

So the bandwidth issue is definitely a big concern of ours.

Nobody has ever built a reliable peer-to-peer service, where people can really access all the music they want in one location,... Once I got it into my head, I couldn't imagine the media space without one.

Napster works because people who love music share and participate.

It's been all over the press, and schools are deciding to shut it down. We released a public announcement saying that we had some potential solutions that we were working with, and once we had something concrete we would start implementing it and approach schools.

If you're a musician or actor, you know that if you're successful, some level of fame goes along with that. You're prepared. But how often does that happen to a programmer?

If you think about computer programming, it's as antisocial as it gets.

I think then, when we started receiving the first of the user feedback, feedback from people that I had not specifically told about it, but had spread from friend to friend and then they were giving us feedback.

I think the most difficult thing had been scaling the infrastructure. Trying to support the response we had received from our users and the number of people that were interested in using the software.