Because the sad fact is that the Enron Corporation and others manipulated with unfortunately great effect the energy market in the West Coast starting in 2000.
You have to manage money. Particularly with market economies. You may have a great product, but if your bottom line goes bust, then that's it.
We see great growth in the United States. But also in China, Brazil, the U.K., and other markets around the world. So ecommerce is going to continue to be a great story for Walmart.
As the bull market goes on, people who take great risks achieve great rewards, seemingly without punishment. It's like crime without punishment or sex without sin.
It's possible to go to the market, buy good ingredients, and make yourself a healthy meal for less than it costs to buy a value meal at McDonald's.
A lot of times, we're just sold these movies that are really cynically conceived and marketed, and they just want you there opening weekend, before everybody finds out it's not so good.
When you look at bands like Take That, who have come back bigger than ever, you can see there will always be a market for good pop bands.
The phrase 'perception is reality' is overused generally. But perception can be reality in monetary policy. The bond market doesn't act merely on what it sees. It acts on what it expects of the Fed or the government.
In rising financial markets, the world is forever new. The bull or optimist has no eyes for past or present, but only for the future, where streams of revenue play in his imagination.
Yeah, the New York Times is very intellectual and very, very prestigious, but it doesn't reach the market that People magazine does.
We need to reengineer companies to focus on figuring out who the customer is, what's the market and what kind of product you should build.
I think right about now we have to beware of marketed Malcolms and Martins. Real people do real things.
Advertising in the past has been predicated on a mass market and a captive audience.
In the Valley, what's happened is you have entrepreneurs that just want to fill a hole in the market and have a rich exit.
The hours Facebook users put into their profiles and lists and updates is the labor that Facebook then sells to the market researchers and advertisers it serves.
Marketing executives like big budgets, as big budgets make it easier to grow the top line.
The true axis of evil in America is the brilliance of our marketing combined with the stupidity of our people.
I imagine there's a market for total depression. I grew up on George Jones and that really dark stuff.
The strategic marketing paradigm of Open Source is a massively-parallel drunkard's walk filtered by a Darwinistic process.
I reject the insurance model. I think we should have a free-market approach to healthcare.
A market that's as open as possible is the precondition for a successful economy, and a successful economy is the precondition to being able to pay for social security.
