Jim Barksdale Quotes

We talk to our partners in Silicon Valley every week, so we have a real sense of what goes on.

As we've grown 'The Daily Muse' and met contacts who want to collaborate with us, knowing who does what has helped us be clear on who we want our partners to connect with - and makes us look buttoned up, too. SEO firm? Talk to our COO. An editor from the 'Huffington Post?' Meet our Editor-in-Chief.

Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other people, and to sit down and talk with customers and get their feedback and understand their needs.

We run Android in a very open way and work closely with all partners. We work with Samsung, and I spend a lot of time with them. But we've always supported other partners.

The business of business is relationships; the business of life is human connection.

Technology has made it easier for different firms to coordinate their activities with one another, and they don't have to be part of one company. They can get the benefits of scale without the inertia of scale.

If you like a person you say 'let's go into business together.' Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.

I actually think Facebook made it their business to be close with all of the app developers. They couldn't have done more.

We are looking for development partners, people to work alongside us, which will accelerate our actually getting licences, the technology into product, into the markets.

Not every great idea needs to be Campbell-generated. It's clear that partners and vendors and other external sources will generate innovative ideas for us.

Companies often visit my office, or invite me to theirs, to brief me on new products, Web sites, or software before they are released - usually a few weeks or days ahead of time. I don't review most of these products.

I was in business for 30 years, and my experience is that the best way to operate is to work fairly and closely with partners over a long period of time.

Epic Games and Microsoft have been close partners for more than 25 years.

I've never been in the enterprise where your customers are your partners. It was always, you had customers, and you had partners.

Strategic partners are way more important than money.

Every great business is built on friendship.

The biggest mistake entrepreneurs can make is trying to do everything themselves. They usually blow up when they try. I did an inventory of every deal I've ever done and it turned out that every single deal I made money on was a partnership, and every colossal failure, where I lost millions, was something I tried to do by myself.

Align yourself with outstanding strategic partners.

Get the 1.0 out as soon as possible...even if it sucks.

Connectivity is productivity - whether it's in a modern office or an underdeveloped village.

Dialogue is a non-confrontational communication, where both partners are willing to learn from the other and therefore leads much farther into finding new grounds together

Connectivity doesn't just mean you get a lot more chances to deliver messages about customer service and pricing plans. This isn't one-sided. It enables people to talk back.

Early access is very valuable, there are a lot of consumers who would love to see something early.

In the modern age where everything is connected to everything, the most important thing about what you can do is what you can do with others.

Connecting everyone is going to be something that no single company can do by themselves. So I'm really glad that they and a lot of other companies are working on this.