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" I always do my firing in the morning because that's when I'm fresh. "

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" The fact that you can crawl the web is a commodity. "

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" If you want to run an ad on the iPad, it has to be approved by Apple. "

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" My first day as a manager was at Digital Equipment in Atlanta. I was a sales rep. I was promoted from among my peers, so one day I was a peer, and the next day I was their boss. "

" I hug employees all the time. I'm a huge contact person. Touch is an extremely important part of the human condition. "

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" Social does not just equal Facebook. Social is how people interact anywhere. "

" Steve Jobs came back to Apple in 1997 - the iPod came out 4 years later. 3 years after that is the first time his market cap grew. It took 7 years. "

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" When trouble strikes, which it always does - bad economy, bad quarter, activists, takeover - when trouble strikes, those board members who don't understand or are not committed are not helpful. "

" If people really don't want ads, they can go find their information however it is they want. It's a free world on that matter. "

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