Joe Kraus Quotes

#1. Fight piracy; don't squash innovation.

Joe Kraus

#2. In my experience of large enterprises, I have found it is often a mistake to try to settle everything at once.

Winston Churchill

#3. Don't forget to balance optimism with fact and belief with reality.

Joe Kraus

#4. The cost of hiring someone bad is so much greater than missing out on someone good.

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#5. The people in your life who don't need an invitation still like to get one.

Robert Breault

#6. Fair use is important to innovators as well as consumers. It's fair use that allowed the VCR to innovate on top of the television.

Joe Kraus

#7. David Harper was Hollywood handsome but he had a Conan the Barbarian temper to go with his looks.

Dorothea Benton Frank

#8. Set measurable goals, measure relative to competition.

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#9. Frieda B.'s a big dreamer, that's certainly true, but the world's biggest dreamer is also in you. All the color and music inside - set it free. Just dream your dreams big and believe they can be.

Renata Bowers

#10. So my advice to startups in this particular category is if you're going to put your product in beta - put your business model in beta with it. Far too often we are too product focused and not business-model focused. That's one thing I definitely would have done differently with JotSpot.

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#11. Ernest chose to go, she finally thinks, watching the fire turn the papers black. He loved her but he could not live anymore.

Naomi Wood

#12. Media companies, under the guise of piracy, are asking congress to give them more control over fair use. Hollywood wants to control innovation.

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#13. Loving someone meant getting hurt

Abbi Glines

#14. My ladsh," said Swithin, "are the besht there ish. It'sh not their fault they're up againsht better people.

Terry Pratchett

#15. We are creating and encouraging a culture of distraction where we are increasingly disconnected from the people and events around us, and increasingly unable to engage in long-form thinking. People now feel anxious when their brains are unstimulated.

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#16. Any time you build a company designed to be sold, you ultimately get less value if it's sold.

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