A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
All you can do is all you can do.
Everyone thought the acquisition strategy was extremely risky because no one had ever done it successfully. In other words, it was innovative.
Taking care of your employees is extremely important, and very, very visible.
You can't spend as much money as I have, even if you try. I've been trying.
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 greatly admire GE, their utterly ruthlessly focused management, to get the cost out and get this integration done. ’ Okay, we may make a few mistakes along the way but we are not going to waste any time. ' They make decisions; they are incredibly disciplined and focused.
Darkness does not leave us easily as we would hope.
In France, for instance, one magazine writer was convinced that On The Road had been a huge influence on Lost Souls and was crushed to learn that I hadn't read the one until after I'd written the other.
Disbelieve nothing wonderful concerning the gods, nor concerning divine dogmas.
People think being remembered most for one character is a negative thing, but I don't. I never expected to be remembered for anything!