"The pace at eBay was frantic and urgent. We knew that if we didn't move fast, somebody would come into the market and quash us. Participant doesn't make a lot of sense from a financial investment perspective, so it's unlikely that other people will be approaching the business in the same way. So you see less urgency; you see a thoroughness and willingness to spend extra time to get things right. Which I think is really important."

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Source : "The Indie Movie Mogul". Interview with Michael S. Malone, www.wired.com. February 1, 2006.

Jeffrey Skoll

#Business Quotes #Moving Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I am the Roman Emperor, and am above grammar.”
“Development cannot really be so centered only on those in power.”

Source : Amartya Sen (2011). “Development as Freedom”, p.247, Anchor
“I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries.”
“At 50 you now have realized ?Getting old isn't fair? And that it's hard to make a comeback ?When you haven't gone anywhere”
“The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine.”
“Well, of course, every actor's limited, and I am the first one to admit it, in all honesty, when I think that I've hit the wall a bit. I'm not ashamed at all, I think it's a process that you have to go through. That's how you learn.”

Source : Interview with Sam Adams, film.avclub.com. May 5, 2011.
“If you want to keep alive in the jungle, you must live as the jungle does.”

Source : John Wyndham (1957). “The Midwich cuckoos”
“~You know how parents rattle on to you about, 'Oh, you won't believe your life will never be the same,' and you think, Why can't these people just get over it? All they're doing is yakking about their kids. It's such a bore. And then you have kids and you just want to do the same thing.~”

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