Think about the way most companies currently hire. You post a job and then get blind resumes in response. This should be a social experience.
People are always going to go shopping. A lot of our effort is just: 'How do we make the retail experience a great one?'
I've never commented much about my experience at Enron except to say, when I was there, it was a much more pipeline and asset-oriented company.
Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.
Swimming is normal for me. I'm relaxed. I'm comfortable, and I know my surroundings. It's my home.
True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.
I come from a large family, but I was not raised with a fortune. Something more was left me, and that was family values.
I want to raise a family and have a couple of small Dirks running around. But it will not be easy to win my heart.
To be successful in coaching you have to treat your team like a family. The leader needs backing from everyone.
An architect must remember that the people working or living in his building need space - to dream, to be quiet, to find beauty somewhere.
The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.
People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.
You can't really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you.
Investing is a business where you can look very silly for a long period of time before you are proven right.
If there wasn't any business and it was just strictly basketball, then there would be no issue, it would probably be done by now. But the team has to protect.
I think a good business book has one coherent idea that is richly played out.
The formation of the News America Publishing Group will lead to greater editorial excitement, new business opportunities and greater efficiencies and coordination.
Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.
There are things players go through on an everyday basis in the business of football. You don't see it all with the glitz and glamour of game day.
Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
If we're going to have any chance of sending stuff to other star systems, we need to be laser-focused on becoming a multi-planet civilisation.
