"You need judgment, you need to utilize conventional resource-allocation analysis, you have to work backward from estimations of the market to the current investments and you have to do some benchmarking of your product and its potential against your competition."

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Source : Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.

John Kao

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“I want to know how to make this girl laugh. I want to know what makes her cry. I want to know what it feels like to have her look at me as if Iâ€™m her knight in shinning armor.”

Source : "Perfect Chemistry". Book by Simone Elkeles, December 23, 2008.
“Iâ€™ve worked with such legendary guitar players as Allan Holdsworth, Ronnie Montrose, Eric Clapton, Lowell George and Steve Vai, but none of them come close to having Edâ€™s [Eddie Van Halen's] fantastic combination of chops and musicianship. I rank him along with Charlie Parker and Art Tatum as one of the three greatest musicians of my lifetime. Unfortunately, I donâ€™t think Ed puts himself in that class.”
“And in any case, to the old man, when the world becomes trite, the triteness arises not so much from a cessation as from a transference of interest. What is taken from this world is given to the next. The glory is in the east in the morning, it is in the west in the afternoon, and when it is dark the splendour is irradiating the realm of the under-world. He would only follow.”
“The poetry and the songs that you are suppose to write, I believe are in your heart. You just have to open up your heart and not be afraid to get them out.”
“I have a general moral: great philosophers may be great, but that is not a reason to follow them. Don't be a follower. Work it out for yourself.”
“The days passed, as they do, and life went on.”
“So she loved him. She just did immediately and again often and clearly naturally and soundly and obviously and many others.”
“Cancer is such a wake-up call to remind us how high the cosmic stakes really are and how short and brief and frail life really is.”

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