Top 41 Jim Barksdale Sayings
#1. If we have data, let's look at data. If all we have are opinions, let's go with mine.
Jim Barksdale
#2. Nothing so reduces and drags down a human being as the consciousness of not being loved.
Hjalmar Soderberg
#3. Our people are excited about building solutions, and it's rewarding to see how much fun Netscape employees have doing something they think is relevant and important.
Jim Barksdale
#4. We're building a great company, and we're very excited about the future of the company.
Jim Barksdale
#5. We're no longer a small business; we're a large organization spread around the world. I can't imagine Netscape growing as fast as it has if it weren't for the way we use our products.
Jim Barksdale
#6. I think we're proving ourselves as we go along. The past several months our strategy has been evolutionary - making maximum advantage of our client browser, as well as our enterprise software for people who want to build Web sites.
Jim Barksdale
#7. After all, it's the future of business communication that we're looking toward.
Jim Barksdale
#8. There are no pat answers - we're pushing through some new frontiers, and lessons of the past don't always apply.
Jim Barksdale
#9. However you must have sensed a lurking 'but' skulking beneath my happy, blithe, and chipper exterior. A minuscule vexation, like the teeniest lump of raw liver sticking to the inside of my boot.
Neil Gaiman
#10. One problem was that my direct testimony was in writing, so a lot of people didn't get to see it. I hope they see it, because I think it built a very strong case.
Jim Barksdale
#11. I can't deny that some customers and prospects think it's the key to our future. But it's not. We're certainly supportive of the Dept. of Justice and the 20 states that have brought this action.
Jim Barksdale
#12. I want my testimony to stand on that point. But I would point out that Zona Research Inc. showed we have increased market share among business users, educational users, and government users over the past several months - and that's more recent than the IDC report.
Jim Barksdale
#13. Innovation scholar Richard Ogle calls an "idea-space": a complex of tools, beliefs, metaphors, and objects of study.
Steven Johnson
#14. We've tapped into a huge demand, and it's up to us to fulfill that demand and to be creative doing it.
Jim Barksdale
#15. I don't believe in government regulation of the software industry.
Jim Barksdale
#16. I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.
Lisa Alther
#17. I like to make movies the way people made movies in the '70s, where they lived and died with these stories, and cared about them, and went to war for them, and they all said something they wanted to say.
Judd Apatow
#18. In my column series 'The Main Thing', I often talk about how Internet technology can improve the way people communicate - both within a business and between a business and its customers and partners.
Jim Barksdale
#19. I've tended to work at fast-growing companies that improve the way business gets done.
Jim Barksdale
#20. To sparkle its enough to be a Star, but to shine you have to be at Sky.
Zeeshan Ahmed
#21. I was telling the truth. I feel like we got that point across.
Jim Barksdale
#22. One of Netscape's main attractions to customers from Day One is that we provide alternatives. And that's cherished by many customers - certainly not all.
Jim Barksdale
#24. Well, the sales of our products clearly demonstrate their value to businesses and to individuals.
Jim Barksdale
#25. We can provide beta software to our developers in advance of the general public. We can easily link up with external partners, customers, and suppliers.
Jim Barksdale
#26. Take our own company as an example: We're living proof, we jump with our own parachutes.
Jim Barksdale
#27. Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world.
Toru Takemitsu
#28. Where we can compete on merit, we do very well.
Jim Barksdale
#29. That's the ultimate gratification in any business situation - do customers buy the product? And do they use it and do they come back and buy more of it?
Jim Barksdale
#30. We can collaborate with a Netscape employee or partner who's halfway around the world. We can distribute information and software to customers and shareholders, and get their feedback.
Jim Barksdale
#31. We also provide a lot of services with our consulting group that allow people to take maximum advantage of the Net economy. Those all seem to resonate with customers and are providing a good strong base going forward.
Jim Barksdale
#32. I suppose there is hardly any one in the civilized world - particularly of those who do just a little more every day than they really have strength to perform - who has not at some time regarded bed as a refuge.
J. E. Buckrose
#33. I think they should separate Microsoft's application group from its operating system group.
Jim Barksdale
#34. The ability of our people to think quickly and create great products in this whole new world of Internet open standards is not only essential to our success but is also one of the things that impresses me most about Netscape.
Jim Barksdale
#35. We provide many options in many product areas that they seem to want to adopt, and that's working well for us.
Jim Barksdale
#36. I think the touchstone is to give consumers a full, fair choice without the power of a monopoly operating system pushing them in a direction that free competition might or might not achieve.
Jim Barksdale
#37. It's the first time I've ever done anything like that. It took longer than I expected. I've gotten a lot of E-mail since I got back, saying they thought I did a good job and presented the case well.
Jim Barksdale
#38. A book is almost always a collective effort, even if it has only a single author.
Raghuram G. Rajan
#39. Readers who claim a preference for short-form over long often tell me it's because they don't have time to commit to a book-length chunk of writing.
Lynn Coady
#40. Well, another market is being created now out of Internet technology.
Jim Barksdale
#41. I can still remember the miraculous feeling of writing a sentence, then more sentences, telling a story. The first thing I wrote was a one-page summary of Robinson Crusoe and I am so sorry I do not have it any more; it was at that moment I became an author.
Henning Mankell
