Businessman Quotes

I think it's pretty obvious to most people that Napster is not media specific, but I could see a system like Napster evolving into something that allows users to locate and retrieve different types of data other than just MP3s or audio files.

I think in terms of the work we're doing now a lot of the UI cleanup... I see it getting much prettier.

I had to actually purchase a book to learn the API and write the client. It was pretty frustrating trying to learn the API and develop a product quickly.

He said this has the potential to be the first broadband killer application, and it has sort of become the truth because obviously it's so bandwidth intensive. I mean, it has been an issue.

But I just really think there is a natural extension into other types of media because it's an excellent system for reliably locating and retrieving content.

Bertelsmann understood our vision when they first invested in us... They still believe in that vision.

Independent artists and labels have always been the trend setters in music and the music business.

It was very early, and we were still like beta or alpha stage, and so we started receiving a ton of download. The server became overloaded, and that's when I realized that this had a huge market.

What five members of the Supreme Court say the law is may be something vastly different from what Congress intended the law to be.

What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

If you print money like in Zimbabwe... the purchasing power of money goes down, and the standards of living go down, and eventually, you have a civil war.

What I object to the current government intervention in so-called 'solving the crisis', they haven't solved anything. They've just postponed it.

Well, then we got to know each other and eventually worked out a bit of idea of management.

Well, I don't know about the dizzy height, but I always thought they were going to be pretty big.

They get, you know, whatever they want from their earnings, and their earnings go into their own company.

But I think traveling around and going around the world and making arrangements for moving around is the most difficult thing, 'cuz you don't know what's going to happen.

I am determined to go through the horror of this world.

This is a war against terrorists. Not a war against a religion, but a war against terrorists.

The president said that this is not removing a mole. You know, removing a mole, that's an outpatient sort of an operation. This was removing a cancer, removing a cancer takes more time.

Innovation is creativity with a job to do.

Even if you can't draw, do a little doodle or rip an illustration from a magazine - these visuals will help bring your idea to life.

We think a modern cloud lets you decide when you want to upgrade. We don't decide for you.

We have most of the software industry running Autonomy.

To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?'

They don't call it the Internet anymore, they call it cloud computing. I'm no longer resisting the name. Call it what you want.

Our goal is very simply to become the desktop for e-businesses.

It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.

I wish HP nothing but the best. I think HP is an icon. Those of us who had their careers in the Valley think of Dave Packard and Bill Hewlett as role models. We would love to be half as good as they were.

I started NetSuite. NetSuite was my idea. I called up Evan Goldberg and said, 'We're going to do ERP on the Internet, software-as-a-service.' Six months later Marc Benioff, finding out what NetSuite was doing, and kind of copied it.

I have had all of the disadvantages required for success.