businessJust because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless. Thomas A. Edison The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers. Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things that they are doing. It’s all really good, so I am actually encouraged by the fundamentals that underlie usage growth on the Net. Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done. Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight. An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn’t happen today. If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been. Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure it just means you haven’t succeeded yet. Business, that’s easily defined – it’s other people’s money. The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.
Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things that they are doing. It’s all really good, so I am actually encouraged by the fundamentals that underlie usage growth on the Net.
Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn’t happen today.