Our words, actions, and diplomatic efforts should be aimed at trying to achieve pragmatic goals rather than creating rhetorical effect.
'He means well' is useless unless he does well.
I get satisfaction out of seeing stuff that makes real change in the real world. We need a lot more of that and a lot less abstract stuff.
The effort must be total for the results to be meaningful.
Do something real, and keep it simple.
Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.
Our mission is making the world's daily habits inspiring and entertaining. Which people come to work at Yahoo to build on that mission? Those who are inspired by that, and you can feel that passion in the products.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Words can come and go. Your acts are going to speak for themselves.
You have to pay a lot of attention to what's important, what's permanent, what's real.
Consider this point. It is a main point of true wisdom. Whenever there is an execution of purpose, there must be an agent.
It's really easy to get PR with no results & it actually feels like you're really actually cool, but in a year you'll still have nothing.
There's not much point breaking records if, in the end, it doesn't mean anything.
We work on things that really matter.
Results "are no good unless they answer (or can be made to seem to answer, or can be twisted and wrenched and piled into odd shapes until they hint at being somehow perhaps on the verge or answering) a question that someone might conceivably want asked."
I like candidates who tell me something that is going to make a difference to me.
From my perspective it matters what we do, not what we say. It mattered that we got Bin Laden, not the name we called him.
People know that pursuing a mission without achieving results is dispiriting; achieving results without a mission is meaningless.
Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.
I just want to serve food that people want to eat, and show a way forward for the restaurant industry, for all industries. One day, everything I've done will be worthwhile.
