#initial

Most companies that are great at something - like AOL dialup or Borders bookstores - do not become great at new things people want (streaming for us) because they are afraid to hurt their initial business. ↗

— Reed Hastings

#aol #because #become #bookstores #borders

So much of the downstream revenue is linked to that initial excitement, to how much revenue is produced in the domestic box office. For example, what we pay for a film three years later is highly correlated to how well it did in the box office. ↗

— Reed Hastings

#box office #did #domestic #downstream #example

The only thing that really matters in the initial part of my career, the worst mistake I've ever made was try to do things to please the audience thinking how the audience is going to respond if I do this. ↗

— Terrence Howard

#career #ever #going #how #i

I initially moved to Switzerland for work on an animated feature film, and have been here ever since. ↗

— John Howe

#been #ever #feature #feature film #film

Movies, obviously, are a little more lucrative. The initial paycheck is better. ↗

— Carlos Alazraqui

#initial #little #lucrative #more #movies

Our initial assessment is that they will all die. ↗

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

#die #initial #our #will

Hitler was such an anomalous character - he was so over-the-top chaotic in his approach to statesmanship, his manner and in the violence which overwhelmed the country initially. I think diplomats around the world... felt like something like that simply would not be tolerated by the people of Germany. ↗

— Erik Larson

#around #by the people #chaotic #character #country

It's about somebody initially knowing more about it than you do but eventually you learn a lot about it yourself and practise the skills and techniques that you've been taught. ↗

— Lynn Davies

#been #eventually #initially #knowing #learn

Then, when I'm in these relationships with people who are also creative, or creative in their own way, what happens is the attraction is initially there and it's all unicorns and rainbows. And then they hate me. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#attraction #creative #happens #hate #i

Notwithstanding these major arguments the wave theory initially did not meet with complete acceptance. ↗

— Max von Laue

#complete #did #initially #major #meet