Most legacy companies get crushed – they get Blockbustered – because they are too afraid to walk away from the status quo, to embrace what the future is. Marc Randolph Read Quote
Negotiation is empathy. It’s almost trite to say that if you can’t put yourself in the seat of the other person you’re speaking with, you’re not going to do well. It’s not about being a bully, not about making offers people can’t refuse. Marc Randolph Read Quote
As a student I’d done work with a charity that took inner-city kids from disadvantaged areas and introduced them to hiking and climbing in the wilderness. Marc Randolph Read Quote
As entrepreneurs, or artists, or just people with dreams, the worst thing you can do is get so caught up in planning the perfect idea that you never get around to actually… well, doing it. I call this building castles in your mind. Marc Randolph Read Quote
Companies have centers of gravity. Where they are is part of their identity. Marc Randolph Read Quote
When I first met Jeff Bezos back in the late 90s, the only automated thing in his office was a rotating fan, gently blowing across a pair of identical blue shirts he’d hung on a water pipe behind his desk. Marc Randolph Read Quote
Companies make a big point of how their culture is all about ‘bad news first,’ but when it comes to people, they are suddenly scared to communicate bad news out of some mistaken feeling of politeness or political correctness. Marc Randolph Read Quote
Pitching a concept well is certainly important, but ultimately you have to build it. Marc Randolph Read Quote
