I wanted to be a venture capitalist and join Sequoia Capital. They've financed and helped built some really special and enormously successful companies, including Google, Yahoo, Paypal, YouTube, Cisco, Oracle, Apple, and also Zappos.
'Independent' means one thing to me: It means that regardless of the source of financing, the director's voice is extremely present. It's such a pretentious term, but it's auteurist cinema. Director-driven, personal, auteurist... Whatever word you wa...
The economy has become seriously unbalanced. Its growth has not been driven by investment or by overcoming Britain's long-standing weaknesses in investment and productivity, particularly skills. Instead, there has been a binge of debt-financed consum...
All sensible politicians favor growth, just as we all favor sound public finances. Both can be achieved if we rationalize spending, invest available resources wisely, and clamp down on tax evasion.
I miss it every minute, and I have no wish at all to go back.
In any grass-roots campaign, building an ongoing base of support is as important as winning the ultimate goal.
The campaign against terrorism is going to be global and it's going to be long and there's reason to expect there will be difficulties along the way.
Social media marketers have already shown unusual savvy in executing campaigns in Brazil.
Most successful American politicians look well-fed on endorsements, campaign contributions and chicken dinners.
But I've been very clear in this campaign - I don't believe the party should have a position on abortion.
Chechens are Muslim, and some share the belief that the West is engaged in a global campaign against Islam.
I was on the campaign trail for 18 months. I never got a question about the District of Columbia in South Carolina.
Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons.
I am a bit biased. I co-chair the campaign effort of George W. Bush.
There are so many similarities between a startup venture and a political campaign - the rhythm, the tempo, the hours, the intensity.
My first campaign was pretty ugly: the incumbent came after me hard with a lot of things that weren't true.
The important things that in a campaign we talk about, let us not forget that once the election is over.
Ultimately, the court is heading to a doctrine of 'separation of campaign and state.' This doctrine, like separation of church and state or separation of military and civilian authority, is not explicit in the Constitution but flows naturally from it...
I am suspending my presidential campaign, because of the continued distractions, the continued hurt caused on me and my family, not because we are not fighters. Not because I'm not a fighter.
There wasn't a bigger issue in my campaign than Obamacare. Everyone I talk to, every business, a lot of family farmers, are concerned about how this will affect them.
You can't hope for a better result as a campaigner than to have the prime minister announce a major policy change within 48 hours of your documentary.
