In the past people used to tell me to shut up a bit. But what I believe is to put out your opinion and let everyone else react. If I’m wrong I’m wrong. People are afraid to put out their opinions and get push back.
Sports, music, movies – basically, fans of any form of entertainment don’t do a resume analysis before picking their favorite.
One thing we can all control is effort.
You always have to know what business you are in. Everybody thought we were in the basketball business. It’s an NBA-team; we are not in the basketball business. We are in the business of creating experiences and memories.
I’m a big believer that you always reiterate, you always learn, you always realize your business is evolving.
We can’t ever forget that the Internet now is just a staid utility. The exciting platforms are software applications that are very, very simple.
When you turn your team upside down and try to figure out what the culture of the team is, you take the greatest risk a team can take.
If you want to deal with me, email is the way you do it. Working via email means that everything I do is searchable. I can go back and check out discussion threads from more than 15 years ago.
I look at my annual budgets for everything and anything, and I look to see where I can save the most money on those items. Saving 30% to 50% buying in bulk – replenishable items from toothpaste to soup, or whatever I use a lot of – is the best guaranteed return on investment you can get anywhere.
Everyone is passionate about something. Usually more than one thing. We are born with it.
I had been in the technology business for so long, I had seen the PC-bubble come and burst, I had seen the local area and wide area networking-bubble come and burst, it was no shock that the internet-bubble was going to burst.
My days are straight out of the movie Groundhog Day.
Patent law holds us back, in every which way, shape or form. There is place for it, in physical products, in pharmaceuticals, but in software in particular, there is no place for it.
Higher education is a business that doesn’t know it’s going out of business.
We can talk about republican or democratic approaches to the economy, but until you fix the student loan bubble – and that’s where the real bubble is – and the tuition bubble, we don’t have a chance. All this other stuff is shuffling deck-chairs on the Titanic.
When you first start working for me, directly for me, I micromanage until I trust you.
I think that any reporter or columnist will be a little more careful when doing interviews with me.
I’ve learned the number one job of a pro manager is not to win championships but to keep their job.
We don’t sell wins or losses. The one thing you can’t control in sports is which games you are going to win or which games you are going to lose. But what I could control was the experience the fans have.
I daydreamed for motivation. I didn’t lie to myself and talk about my passions and how if I was passionate enough about something I could be successful at it.