Daniel Lyons Quotes

Apple is a failure because they missed social? Nobody would say that, because they are having great success.

Building a business and becoming a billionaire is it's not championship. It's the competence; the competence in your sector with other companies not looking to have some kind of records in this issue.

Xiaomi looks a bit like Apple but is really more like Amazon with some elements of Google.

Boeing does a great job in introducing product that kind of changes the game.

Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.

I think few people in their lifetime have the chance to be involved in something like the creation of Microsoft - that's always going to be something I'm known for.

I have always admired the innovation and impact Apple products and services have on people's lives and hope in some small way I can help contribute to the company's continued success and leadership in changing the world.

I didn't wake up one day and want to become an entrepreneur. I had the idea for Rent the Runway and thought it would be fun to work on and also thought if it was successful, it would make women feel great about themselves.

What's the word to describe the thing that all of us are trying to do, which is to found or work for or invest in a company that is the winner of all winners?

If you want to be in front of Bayern, you have to play a perfect season.

I never said that I wanted to be the only company, is it my fault that I ran my company well? Wouldn't you want the best for your company? Also consider that I started of small.

Here is the prime condition of success: Concentrate your energy, thought and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged. Having begun on one line, resolve to fight it out on that line, to lead in it, adopt every improvement, have the best machinery, and know the most about it.

We've got the best product pipeline that I've seen in my 25 years at Apple.

All happy companies are different: each one earns a monopoly by solving a unique problem. All failed companies are the same: they failed to escape competition.

So always keep momentum, it's this prime directive for managing a startup.

Everybody wants to make something they think is a surefire winner, though nobody knows what a surefire winner is, in my opinion.

There is a fantasy in Redmond that Microsoft products are innovative, but this is based entirely on a peculiar confusion of the words "innovative" and "successful." Microsoft products are successful - they make a lot of money - but that doesn't make them innovative, or even particularly good.

If you do something for fun and create the best possible product, then the profit will come.

For entrepreneurs, ignorance is not bliss. It's fatal. It's costly. And it's for losers. You either get organized, or get crushed.

I'd never done anything that required a five-year commitment. To build a show that seems to have kept the imagination of the world so much was a bit otherworldly.

Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.

And make sure that capital structure we have in place is the right capital structure. I think that's the reason that we've been successful.

Being able to touch so many people through my businesses and make money while doing it, is a huge blessing.

Those who create wealth should be shown the greatest respect.

To be successful in a knowledge economy firms need to create learning organizations.