“We’re the company selling all the picks and shovels to the gold miners.”
Loudeye CEO Jeff Cavins, on his company’s mission to help others lose money selling music online, The New York Times, 12 January 2004
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TAG, YOU’RE IT
“We are interested in maintaining a dialogue with consumer advocacy groups like CASPIAN as we move forward in rolling out EPC and RFID.”
Grocery Manufacturers Association spokesman Richard Martin, on seeking personal information about an anti-RFID tag activist in an effort to embarrass her, Wired News, 12 January 2004
R&DELETE
“This is not a business that our research and development power could bring anything to.”
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, on spending billions of dollars discovering he couldn’t make the Internet proprietary, The New York Times, 8 January 2004
CAN’T WE OUTSOURCE THAT, TOO?
“There is no job that is America’s God-given right any more. We have to compete for jobs as a nation.”
Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, calling for a level playing field at the same time she’s tilting her company’s hiring overseas, San Jose Mercury News, 7 January 2004
I DIDN’T KNOW EUTHANASIA WAS AN EXIT STRATEGY
“We are trusted caregivers, like a hospice.”
Business liquidator Martin Pichinson, on his gentle bedside manner for ailing startups, CNN.com, 7 January 2004
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