Have you ever closed your eyes and listened to the sound of your own mother's voice?
I don't know of any Internet service that opens on a regional basis.
Companies rarely die from moving too fast, and they frequently die from moving too slowly.
Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they’ll turn out to be right.
Be brutally honest about the short term and optimistic and confident about the long term.
The best managers figure out how to get great outcomes by setting the appropriate context, rather than by trying to control their people.
If the Starbucks secret is a smile when you get your latte. . . ours is that the Web site adapts to the individual's taste.
I look at it this way: the WNBA is 13 years young. I think eventually women will get to that point, maybe in my daughter's generation, where their salaries will be similar to men's. But we're still starting off, like, where the NBA was back in the 1950s.
The hand that controls the supper dish rules the world!
If you think about how healthcare is delivered, it's on an ad hoc basis. Someone comes into a hospital, someone comes into a pharmacy, someone comes into a doctor. But beyond those touchpoints, the patients are on their own. There's no real continuity of care.
At last the anchor was up, the sails were set, and off we glided. It was a sharp, cold Christmas; and as the short northern day merged into night, we found ourselves almost broad upon the wintry ocean, whose freezing spray cased us in ice, as in polished armor.