“Be, and the money will come.”
Futurist Watts Wacker, on the advice he gave Jean-Louis Gassee for negotiating with Apple, Upside, December 1998
MY PEOPLE WILL GET BACK AT YOUR PEOPLE
“One reason we are in business with Infoseek and Starwave is to have people who will turn to us and say, ‘You guys are so old and so stupid.'”
Disney chairman Michael Eisner, on the gratuitous-insult synergies his Internet portal, Go.com, is generating, The New York Times, 13 December 1998
GOT MILK?
“Venture capitalists are a homogeneous, networked industry, where every deal is a referral deal.”
Catherine Muther, president of the Three Guineas Fund, on the thoroughly dairy world of high-tech startup finance, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 December 1998
C’MERE, KIDS, THE FIRST TASTE’S FREE
“What if you had a handheld device that cost $100? You could imagine every kid having one.”
Handheld computing impresario Jeff Hawkins, speculating on the possibilities of the youth market, USA Today, 9 December 1998
WE WERE JUST KIDDING ABOUT THAT E-BUSINESS STUFF
“Building and managing network services is not our core competency.”
IBM CEO Lou Gerstner, announcing the sale of IBM’s Global Network to AT&T, News.com, 9 December 1998
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