MAY 2007
Quotable
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“I see people continuing to bet against [the internet]. They use strategies that are not going to work in a new world where everyone is online all the time.”
Eric Schmidt, CEO of internet search and information company Google, at the Roads to Innovation Conference in November.
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“You do one thing and you do it well. If your chances of success are 1 in 10, you don’t double your chances of success by doing two things.”
Eli Harari, founder, chairman, and CEO of flash memory manufacturer SanDisk, speaking at the View from the Top lecture series in October.
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“If you give a good idea to a mediocre group, they’ll screw it up. If you give a mediocre idea to a good group, they’ll fix it.”
Ed Catmull, president and cofounder of Pixar Animation Studios, at the GSB’s annual Entrepreneurship Conference in January.
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“It’s not just creating a zone or an office park. I’m looking at this whole problem in a more holistic way.”
Sabeer Bhatia, cofounder of online email pioneer Hotmail, who is building a city of 500,000—Nano City—in India to attract young, highly skilled workers and high-tech companies. He
was invited to speak in January by the Global Management Program.
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“There had been a trend of [Indian] professionals going to the U.S. in an effort to make a lot of money. But now people are wanting to come back to India.”
Azim Premji, right, chairman of Indian outsourcing giant Wipro Technologies, speaking on campus in October, where he was introduced by Coddy Johnson, second-year MBA student.
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“Perhaps fewer companies are being sued for fraud because there is less 'fraud' after the Enron and WorldCom scandals.”
Joseph Grundfest, law professor and codirector of the Rock Center for Corporate Governance, writing in the New York Times. The center is a collaborative project of the Stanford Business and Law schools.
