An enterprise that is constantly exploring new horizons is likely to have a competitive advantage in attracting and retaining talent.
As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors.
Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for political advantage, and discourage dissent.
Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature.
Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
Private property is redundant. "Public property" is an oxymoron. All legit property is private. If property isn't private it's stolen.
My main graduate training was received at the University of Chicago from which I received the Ph.D. in 1938.
I didn't grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, I've never wanted to speak to an all-white audience.
I think if you're constantly reinvesting into your content and giving the fans stuff, then you can continue to tour. You can continue to sell the merch and monetize the popularity of the brand.
Democracy, despite its limitations, is in the end the only way to ensure that policies do not simply benefit the privileged few.
Overcoming the myth that there is such a thing as an objectively defined 'free market' is the first step towards understanding capitalism.
I kinda learned to sing singing to Echo and the Bunnymen songs and Smiths songs: Morrissey would be a big favorite.
I've almost never played the 'Smiths' records, once they've gone out. I was always like that and probably always will be.
When I graduated from college in the spring of 1970, I decided to hitchhike around Europe with my guitar and my backpack. I was gone for about four months.
White House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military and diplomatic issues, not development issues.
I have endless playlists on my iPod so will throw on, say, Bruce Springsteen or The Smiths, depending on what kind of day I'm going to have.
I had learned that every patient has the right to hope, despite long odds, and it was my role to help nurture that hope.
I went to a liberal arts college, and as part of my background, I was majoring in mathematics and physics.
I do it as a therapy. I do it as something to keep me alive. We all need a little discipline. Exercise is my discipline.
I have spoken to a whole group of millionaires, head executives at Microsoft. Boy did I chew those guys out.
I only eat fish - no chicken, no turkey, just fish. I get all my protein from fish and egg whites.
