Walt Mossberg Quotes

Bad reviews come with everything. I've been getting them my whole life.

Sometimes your worst competitors are the ones which are dying because they do stupid things.

For me, utter failure is to make a film that people pay their money to go see and they don't like.

Arguably Apple's least successful core hardware product in decades, the Apple Watch could have been nursed along, like a terminal patient.

Criticism comes with the territory when you don't win games.

I will say that Surface has been a big disappointment for us and for Microsoft. Both of our expectations from the product were much greater than what came to be and not only that. We invested enormous amount into research and development and spent a lot of time and energy into it.

If you play bad, people are going to let you know.

Incompetency fed on itself.

Most turnarounds don’t turn.

We're so bad right now that for us back-to-back home runs means one today and another one tomorrow.

Whatever your work and whatever its worth, No matter how strong or clever, Some one will sneer if you pause to hear, And scoff at your best endeavor. For the target art has a broad expanse, And wherever you chance to hit it, Though close be your aim to the bull's-eye fame, There are those who will never admit it.

With enough insider information and a million dollars, you can go broke in a year.

We're in such a slump that even the ones that are drinkin' aren't hittin'.

And in situations where a man and a woman each receive negative feedback, the woman's self-confidence and self-esteem drop to a much greater degree. The internalization of failure and the insecurity it breeds hurt future performance, so this pattern has serious long-term consequences.

Business neglected is business lost.

I'm not impressed by your performance.

Doing nothing, badly.

I played so bad, I got a get-well card from the IRS.

You're trying your damndest, you strike out and they boo you. I act like it doesn't bother me, like I don't hear anything the fans say, but the truth is I hear every word of it and it kills me.

Protecting underperformers always backfires.

The resentment that criticism engenders can demoralize employees, family members and friends, and still not correct the situation that has been condemned.

Most companies don't die because they are wrong; they die because they don't commit themselves. They fritter away their momentum and their valuable resources while attempting to make a decision. The greatest danger is standing still.

No one can measure the loss of business that may arise from a defective item that goes out to a customer.

If you do the job badly enough, sometimes you don't get asked to do it again.

No wonder you guys lost.