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CorpLifeCycles

  1. Develop products that seem inevitable. Products that leave you with the sense that that’s the only possible solution that makes sense
  2. Bill Murray, on fame "The only time [fame] really matters is in the emergency room with your kids"
  3. If Apple were valued the same way as Facebook, each Apple share would be worth more than $3,000.
  4. Facebook's IPO debacle: greed, hubris and incompetence tinyurl.com/czj33zd
  5. You can't solve a problem without first stating the problem correctly
  6. Facebook at $10? That's what I'm betting.
  7. Happy Birthday, YouTube! Now, Get back to work and figure out how to make money!
  8. Organizations need to think less about WHO did it and more about HOW it happened. Look at what that created the problem in the first place.
  9. Curtis White, on free speech "In the United States, everyone may enjoy freedom of speech so long as it doesn’t matter
  10. Stephen Hawking was asked, "What's the most common misconception about your work?" He replied, "People think I'm a Simpsons character."
  11. A woman was having sex during a business trip when light fitting fell on her. Court - 'it was in the course of her job and awarded damages'
  12. The writing is on the wall for this once great company tinyurl.com/6sc6bnw
  13. Write all plans in pencil and carry an eraser. Write your goal or desired end result in ink.
  14. In 1982 there were 4.6B people in the world, and no mobile subscribers. Today - 7.0B people in the world and six billion subscrbers.
  15. The most patriotic thing you can do is bust your ass and get rich, make a boatload of money and pay your taxes. Mark Cuban