#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

Our initial assessment is that they will all die. ↗

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

#die #initial #our #will

I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#anyone #art #attain #bring #end

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

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

— Max von Laue

#complete #did #initially #major #meet

My heart has been heavy and I have deliberated within my own conscience, knowing that my decision should not come out of my initial emotion of anger toward the President for such reckless behavior, but should be based on the facts. ↗

— Blanche Lincoln

#based #been #behavior #come #conscience

Later, I made a movie with him, 'That Touch of Mink,' and we became good friends but any woman's initial meeting with Cary is right up there with the big moments of her world history. ↗

— Audrey Meadows

#became #big #cary #friends #good

Initial feedback we got from people was that Poker could and should be a product in its own right. For us, that was definitely a case of us not seeing the forest for the trees since we are Poker nuts. ↗

— Tim Page

#could #definitely #feedback #forest #got

I was initially recruited while I was in business school back in the late sixties by the National Security Agency, the nation's largest and least understood spy organization; but ultimately I worked for private corporations. ↗

— John Perkins

#back #business #business school #corporations #i