Valentino’s partner comments that the new investor/owners are more ‘concerned with the bottom line.’ His strategy was always to make Valentino ‘famous and happy.’
Business Quotes
Mike Zimmerman
If successful people have one common trait, it’s an utter lack of cynicism. The world owes them nothing. They go out and find what
William Shakespeare
We know what we are, but not what we may be.
Mark Twain observation
There are wealthy gentlemen in England who drive four-horse passenger-coaches twenty or thirty miles on a daily line in the summer because the privilege
Its remarkable how much work companies (particularly start ups) can get out of people when social norms (such as the excitement of building something
Conan O’brien paid $45 million buy-out
to make room for Jay Leno, who was unsuccessful at 10:00 and moved back to O’Brien’s spot.
Overpaid CEOs
In 1976 the average CEO was paid 36 times as much as the average worker. By 1993, the average CEO was paid 131 times
Google in the early days
That morning, Mayer stopped by the company kitchen and noticed that Larry Page was standing in a corner of the room for no clearly
Raligh gains at expense of poor
Quite the same enthusiasm. His highly lucrative monopoly on woolen broadcloth was widely resented as a tax on the poor, while his foppish silks
Yahoo founder helps destroy his own company
Searching prowess. It was Yahoo co-founder and Stanford alumnus David Filo who advised the pair otherwise; he told them they should go ahead and