No one becomes an expert in a new career overnight, even if you are coming from another career where you were established and experienced.
Journalists have misquoted people for so long - and quoted them out of context that for many people like to have their words on record.
The down market favours the small two-, three-, four-person company, not the huge company with 100 people losing half a million dollars a month.
I think there's no reason the Davis Cup couldn't be as powerful and popular and profitable as any of the four majors are today, given some changes.
It's easy to talk to people over the Web, but it's not very easy to trigger transactions. That's the thing we set out to fix with Stripe.
The Internet is a testament to a connected system that works - it's a global network where any computer can reach another, and easily transfer information across.
Of course, we should all be aware of what we're packing in our carry-on luggage - anything that might be considered dangerous could be confiscated at a security checkpoint.
Where ever the Mavericks are today, we owe it to Michael Finley. He was the one guy who stayed when we were a terrible team. He stayed and fought the fight.
People used to think that private equity was basically just a compensation scheme, but it is much more about making companies more efficient.
The world is a complicated place, and there's a lot of division between people. The performing arts tend to unify people in a way nothing else does.
Everybody likes each other until things get tough. Then you will find out what kind of team you have, and I understand that as much as anyone.
Smart drafting is a wonderful thing. A smart free-agent signing is a wonderful thing. Smart trades are a wonderful thing, and that's a function of management.
We couldn't get enough Jeremy Lin material in the NBA store fast enough. And when we did, it was just gone in minutes.
You can't play enough golf or do any of those other things that fill that kind of excitement that coaching gave me in the big games.
I didn't even know what it was when I started. But I was lucky. I found it at 16. Most people don't discover decathlon until they're 21 or 22.
My mother introduced me to many different things, and figure skating was one of them. I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice.
Saks is one of the temples of good-quality products in America. The Saks shop in New York, for me, is the most interesting department store in America.
I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.
Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.
When you are in the valley, keep your goal firmly in view and you will get the renewed energy to continue the climb.
I went to several different grade schools all over the West Coast. I got polio when I was 8 and spent eight months in the hospital and a rehab clinic in Seattle.
