#ere

I merely consider myself a father, and one role of a father is to provide financial resources for his family. ↗

— Guy Kawasaki

#family #father #financial #financial resources #his

Smart, well-meaning people get it wrong when they start believing that the world owes them something and that the rules are different for them. ↗

— Guy Kawasaki

#different #get #owes #people #rules

At the end of my life, is it better to say that I empowered people to make great stuff, or that I died with a net worth of $10 billion? Obviously I'm picking the former, although I would not mind both. ↗

— Guy Kawasaki

#better #billion #both #died #empowered

And let me take one of the explanations most commonly given: Analysts were pressured to reach conclusions that would fit the political agenda of one or another administration. I deeply think that is a wrong explanation. ↗

— David Kay

#agenda #another #commonly #conclusions #deeply

The Germans certainly - the intelligence service believed that there were WMD. It turns out that we were all wrong, probably in my judgment, and that is most disturbing. ↗

— David Kay

#certainly #disturbing #germans #intelligence #judgment

And you know, almost in a perverse way, I wish it had been undue influence because we know how to correct that. We get rid of the people who, in fact, were exercising that. ↗

— David Kay

#because #been #correct #exercising #fact

I also believe that it is time to begin the fundamental analysis of how we got here, what led us here and what we need to do in order to ensure that we are equipped with the best possible intelligence as we face these issues in the future. ↗

— David Kay

#analysis #begin #believe #best #ensure

I do believe we have to understand why reality turned out to be different than expectations and estimates. But you have more public service - certainly many of you - than I have ever had, and you recognize that this is not unusual. ↗

— David Kay

#believe #certainly #different #estimates #ever

I had innumerable analysts who came to me in apology that the world that we were finding was not the world that they had thought existed and that they had estimated. Reality on the ground differed in advance. ↗

— David Kay

#apology #came #differed #estimated #existed

I would also certainly continue to keep loan repayment interest rates as low as possible. And I would spread the financial aid a little less thinly across all income brackets. ↗

— Charles Vest

#aid #also #brackets #certainly #continue