“It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important thin...” — Jeff Bezos Quote

It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you're in boom times.

Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity, and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.

Real estate is the key cost of physical retailers. That's why there's the old saw: location, location, location.

You're not going to make Hemingway better by adding animations.

If your customer base is aging with you, then eventually you are going to become obsolete or irrelevant. You need to be constantly figuring out who are your new customers and what are you doing to stay forever young.

I taught four classes in my life. They were a master class at Northwestern and three classes at Emerson when I was making 'Here Comes the Boom' in Boston.

Mindtree began as an internet systems integrator when the dot-com boom was going on.

A lot of the city boys in London, a lot of the hedge-fund, young city workers at the height of the financial boom were a lot of working-class, brilliantly minded young fellows and women.

When I was like in grade 3, my mom bought me a boom box for Christmas. I would lay the boom box on my chest... I would put it on my chest and listen to music all day.

It doesn't matter if you call it a boom or a bubble. The startup business moves in cycles, and what goes up will eventually come down.