There is no conflict between best in British class and being a global newspaper. We are an international newspaper rooted in the City of London, and I think people understand that. The 'FT' stands out as a global niche product.
What is Oracle? A bunch of people. And all of our products were just ideas in the heads of those people - ideas that people typed into a computer, tested, and that turned out to be the best idea for a database or for a programming language.
Were there stories I wrote along the way that were terrible clinkers? God, yes. But they were all a product of their time, and I did the best I could.
I was a production assistant. I saw what people who are full of themselves are like - another reason not to lose your humility! I have a mouth on me so I wasn't the best P.A.
The kind of national goal we ought to be thinking about is way beyond national product - it is how do we as a nation help our children be the best kinds of people they could possibly be?
I think the most productive thing to do during times of change is to be your best self, not the best version of someone else.
When you are in a bad production there are two things you can do. You can do your best or you can leave. I chose to do the third thing which was sulk.
There are rules in advertising, and those rules are self-imposed by the client companies because they don't want their products to be seen as dishonest.
I like writing code. I like building product. I like making things that people like.
Substantially fewer films will be produced over the next year or two. And a significant portion of the production costs of the reduced slate will be borne by hedge funds and other investment groups.
Your mission is to find a product or service that can positively impact the lives of 1 billion people because that's the game we're playing today.
The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.
People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete - the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were productive and no longer are.
The images attempt to capture scientific thought. They represent the physical manifestation of the thought process. Everything in the laboratory is a product of a stream of conscious or unconscious thought.
Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.
I have more contact with people who consume, for lack of a better word, my product than any other performers.
The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.
Today's innovation is the product of somebody's imagination Yesterday. To belong to Tomorrow's Innovators' Club, spend some time in creative thinking Today.
And after you've done the acting, there's a lot of places you can put your input - in the editing, in the production of it, in the rewriting of it and so on.
Before you approach a production entity or even a potential producer, you should write up a treatment and register your show with the Writers Guild of America.
We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought of God.
