Lets build a monument for the veto. Lets build a monument for impotence and incapacity.
A lot of the key to Apple's succes is Designing technology in order to hide it.
Value investors look at cash flows. If a company can maintain present cash flows for 5 or 6 years, it’s a good investment. Investors then just hope that those cash flows - and thus the company’s value - don’t decrease faster than they anticipate.
Never invest in a tech CEO that wears a suit.
If you focus on near-term growth above all else, you miss the most important question you should be asking: will this business still be around a decade from now?
Distribution may not matter in fictional worlds, but it matters in most. The Field of Dreams conceit is especially popular in Silicon Valley, where engineers are biased toward building cool stuff rather than selling it. But customers will not come just because you build it. You have to make this happen, and it's harder than it looks.
There's a wide range of sales ability: there are many gradations between novices, experts, and masters. There are even sales grandmasters. If you don't know any grandmasters, it's not because you haven't encountered them, but rather because their art is hidden in plain sight.
Fear's contagious, but so is courage.
The earth has become one big village, with telephones laid on from one end to the other, and air transport, both speedy and safe.
I must remember to forgive myself. Because there's an awful lot of gray to work with. No one can live in the light all the time. "-A Great and Terrible Beauty
You learn your limitations and then you try to work within them.