“You should give 100 percent of the credit belongs to the employees, not to the CEO.”
Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd, making a keen argument for slashing his $15 million pay package, speaking at the Fortune iMeme conference, 13 July 2007
Author: owenthomas
BEHOLD THE FRUIT OF YOUR LAMER
“We’d rather have a slice of a watermelon than a whole grape.”
Ask.com CEO Jim Lanzone, on his company’s less-than-juicy search market share, The Browser, 12 July 2007
OUR SOLE PURPOSE: MAKE A LOT OF BUCKS
“I didn’t come here at this point in my career to manage a cynical enterprise whose sole purpose is to exploit the intricacies of AdSense to make a few bucks.”
Associated Content CEO Geoff Reiss, explaining the degree to which he intends to profit from gaming Google’s advertising system, News.com, 11 July 2007
THAT’S HOW WE LIKE OUR CHARITIES: DRUNK, LAID, AND SLEEPING ON A USED COUCH
“What Craigslist has done to the community at large, we want to do to the nonprofit world.”
Craigslist Foundation executive director Darian Rodriguez Heyman, speaking at the organization’s Nonprofit Night event, 10 July 2007
“NING,” AS IN “BATTENING”
“We will be investing that money in our business — in scaling our operations to accommodate our traffic and growth; in our product design and development efforts; and in our platform evangelism and support programs. Apart from those investments, we plan on staying as lean and focused as we possibly can.”
Ning cofounder Marc Andreessen, promising that he won’t spend his investors’ $44 million on foosball tables and Aeron chairs this time, blog.pmarca.com, 9 July 2007
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