Mailer's Law: A thing either gets better or it costs more to run it the way it was.
We watch our competitors, learn from them, see the things that they were doing for customers and copy those things as much as we can.
Things never go smoothly.
My view is there's no bad time to innovate.
Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful.
If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.
I wanted to project myself forward to age 80 and say, ‘OK, I’m looking back on my life. I want to minimise the number of regrets I have. ’ And I knew that when I was 80, I was not going to regret having tried this. I was not going to regret trying to participate in this thing called the Internet that I thought was going to be a really big deal. I knew that if I failed, I wouldn’t regret that. But I knew the one thing I might regret is not ever having tried. I knew that that would haunt me every day.
Anyone who has the habit of speaking before God's majesty as if he were speaking to a slave, careless about how he is speaking, and saying whatever comes into his head and whatever he's learned from saying prayers at other times, in my opinion is not praying. Please, God, may no Christian pray in this way.
My eleven year old daughter mopes around the house all day waiting for her breasts to grow.
Life is fragile and absurd.
Managers of hospitals over the years have been increasingly recruited from outside the health service, and although their experience of running a supermarket chain might allow them to balance the books, it does not mean they have any insight into how a ward should be managed and patients best served.