Any new ideas go into PiL. My inspiration is everything that the human being gets up to. I don't listen to any music when I'm in PiL-zone, because influences can poison your well. Otherwise, I listen to anything.
You have to act and act now.
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.
Ceux qui revent eveilles ont conscience de 1000 choses qui echapent a ceux qui ne revent qu'endormis. The one who has day dream are aware of 1000 things that the one who dreams only when he sleeps will never understand. (it sounds better in french, I do what I can with my translation. . . )
As I have said a thousand times, no manipulation can put stocks down and keep them down.
Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it.
Measured by the standards of men of their time, [the Pilgrims] were the humble of the earth. Measured by later accomplishments, they were the mighty. In appearance weak and persecuted they came -- rejected, despised -- an insignificant band; in reality strong and independent, a mighty host of whom the world was not worthy destined to free mankind.