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Stay the course and keep building an integrated Apple ecosystem of iPhone + iPod + iMac + iTunes + App Store + Apple TV. No one has yet demonstrated they understand how to create an 'experience-based ecosystem' as well as Apple. ”
Our primary goal in the consumer health service companies I back is helping them create an uncompromisingly great consumer experience. ”
In many cases, jobs that used to be done by people are going to be able to be done through automation. I don't have an answer to that. That's one of the more perplexing problems of society. ”
When a script like 'Hardflip' comes along, with a real depiction of the rewards of a father-son relationship but also the difficulties of building one, you have my attention. ”
I just like building stuff. ”
The original goal for Papa John's was to make $50 grand a year and have $50 grand in the bank so I could get a date. ”
I take more jobs when I need more money, if I'm investing in films. I take fewer when I don't. Or if something really good comes along, I usually find a way to do a good job on it in the time that I've got. ”
This fundraising is consuming us. It's impossible to overstate, I think, what it's doing to members and their ability to just focus on the job that they were elected to do. The collective concentration of the institution is being undermined every day by the need to fund-raise. ”
With most of my books, I'll actually go out and look at the setting. If you describe things carefully, it kind of makes the scene pop. ”
When you're building a character, or at least when I'm building a character, you start saying, 'How am I going to make people like him?' ”