We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn't be in this business.
Being a conglomerate, each of our businesses has a different challenge; business landscape is different for each business. It makes it challenging as well as exciting.
I moved back to Boston and joined some of my Harvard classmates at Bain & Co. I quickly realized I enjoyed business.
Nobody forces you to work at Wal-Mart. Start your own business! Sell something to Wal-Mart!
For whatever reason somebody can be convinced to buy a PC, it opens up a whole new market for all of us in the software business.
This is a learning in the business life that first of all you need to have commitment, dedication and passion for what you are doing.
The stories about broadcast dying or it being overtaken by cable have stopped. Same goes for the stories about the Internet hurting our business.
When public figures think they can open a business even though they've got no business experience, it's a bad idea.
Obesity is a societal issue. We have to come together with government, business, civil society, and NGOs to create solutions for this.
Well, California used to be in the dream-making business, and unfortunately what's happened I think we're now in the dream-breaking business.
If you're a teenager in Palo Alto launching an app, you know from the outset how you plan to finance your business.
It's very possible that advertising business models will simply never do as well on mobile devices as those oriented around transactions.
In the same way that you're driven in your business to keep innovating - Facebook is a wonderful example of constant innovation - think about doing that in philanthropy.
I look at every business and ask, How long can this last? How can I identify the status quo and change it?
If Japanese companies don't reform drastically and implement English as their daily business language, the economy will only continue to contract.
And I thought I'd always like some form of business, I didn't know what kind of business I'd go in.
When the music business failed to embrace the Internet, I thought it was game, set and match for the industry, and I quit.
Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.
I think it's natural for any manager to want to grow his business. The question is at what rate, and in what direction, and in what format?
It's not about revenues: The fundamental economics in digital business is scale and margins. The top line has become the bottom line.
Take risks. Ask big questions. Don't be afraid to make mistakes; if you don't make mistakes, you're not reaching far enough.
