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A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#dinner party #doing #embroidery #essay #painting

The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#central #contradiction #dominant #each #historical

And the VCR did the same thing: the movie industry thought nobody would ever watch movies any more. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#did #ever #industry #more #movie

If you want to be an entrepreneur, it's not a job, it's a lifestyle. It defines you. Forget about vacations, about going home at 6 pm - last thing at night you'll send emails, first thing in the morning you'll read emails, and you'll wake up in the middle of the night. But it's hugely rewarding as you're fulfilling something for yourself. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#defines #emails #entrepreneur #first #first thing

It's extremely hard to build a company with a product that everyone loves, is free and has no business model, and then to innovate a business model. I did that with Kazaa, had half a billion downloads but that wasn't a sustainable business. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#build #business #business model #company #did

Skype is for any individual who has a broadband Internet connection. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#broadband #connection #individual #internet #skype

Some Internet operators are concerned that video services such as Netflix and YouTube consume lots of the bandwidth on the network. While there is some truth to this, my guess is that the operators wished they could provide the same kind of services with the same success as Netflix and YouTube. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#concerned #consume #could #guess #internet

The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#calls #century #change #charging #did

Video is moving online in a big way. It's proven to be a challenging market for some companies that start out as a pure Internet company such as Joost. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#challenging #companies #company #internet #market

We have 2 million users in the U.S. and about 13 million worldwide in more than 200 countries. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#countries #million #more #than #users