Sublime

Everyone on your team must know the goal and be aware of the end game. Be clear, be direct.

How he was so clever to buy WhatsApp (he doesn’t mention the spyware Onavo that showed him which apps to buy by giving him confidential usage data, making acquisitions like shooting fish in a barrel).

Outsiders, they don’t understand, man. When they talk about Brazil, when they talk about the little kids in the slums? 

They always paint a dark picture. It’s always pain and misery, man. 

And yeah, it’s like that sometimes. But it’s complicated. When I think about growing up in the favela, I actually think about how much  fun  we

Tierney, who kept asking himself, “What is my life about? What’s my legacy?” “He’s on my short list of heroes,” said Tierney of Gardner, adding that Gardner’s questions “gave me courage to follow my path.”

I learned from him then, for the first time, that he had attended every one of my high school JV and varsity games, even when I was the last man on the bench and didn’t get a minutes’s worth of playing time. He told me he had sat up in the back behind our bench where I’d be sure not to see him. I asked him why he did that and he told me he wanted t

Every company was inspired by his vision: be daring; offer something new and exciting; appeal to people’s willingness to take a chance; and sell an enjoyable experience as well as a product or service.

During this early period I began hiring personnel with four characteristics I value most highly: talent, character, functional intelligence (beyond basic intelligence, the ability to think on your feet, quickly and spontaneously), and an eagerness to adopt my way of doing things, my philosophy.

(In business this means actively seeking the counsel of those you respect in your profession, as well as studying printed material and publications that you determine will provide pertinent input.)

Bill Walsh had the ability to change the way people thought—not just how we performed a task, but how we thought and felt about who we were. In the beginning, when we were as bad as we were, nobody was thinking about a Super Bowl. Our goal in life was just to be pretty good. Bill’s goal in life was to convince us that we could be great. And he did;