All American consumers have the same needs – to buy great consumer products, with savings and value, and with the convenience of easy delivery. Alan Patricof Read Quote
I didn’t understand the culture and what Starbucks was really about. It wasn’t a coffee shop. It was really a way of life… we suffer from thinking that since we have it in New York, or it won’t work in New York, that it won’t work some other place. That’s a discipline we keep trying to improve. Alan Patricof Read Quote
I was very early on in taking venture capital abroad: to Europe first, then Asia. Alan Patricof Read Quote
The only thing… in-store retailing has that online doesn’t have is it has the ability to touch, smell, feel, and experience. Alan Patricof Read Quote
We’ve done education nonprofit through our history, and maybe the profit motive will be helpful. Alan Patricof Read Quote
The advent of interactive communications has created an inflection point where it’s economical to provide education differently than in the past. Alan Patricof Read Quote
My philosophy, in a nutshell, is to wipe out the greatest amount of risk with the least amount of money. Alan Patricof Read Quote
In times of huge fiscal deficits, no new revenues can be ignored, and renouncing any becomes well nigh politically impossible. Alan Patricof Read Quote
Cloud computing eliminates capital expenditure, so you can go global very quickly – you don’t have to have extensive servers in every country. Alan Patricof Read Quote
