No first-time entrepreneur has the business network of contacts needed to succeed. An incubator shou...
JAY SAMIT Instagram, Swiffer, and Nest had to compete with consumer habits and perceptions. Breakout products ...
JAY SAMIT Targeted marketing delivers a lower customer acquisition cost and gets you to profitable growth fast...
JAY SAMIT To thrive, all businesses must focus on the art of self-disruption. Rather than wait for the competi...
JAY SAMIT No matter how much we tweet, blog and post, nothing in business is as powerful as actual face time w...
JAY SAMIT Every product you have ever loved was a compromise from the ideal vision of its creators to the real...
JAY SAMIT Creating the right advisory board for your startup can be the single most important step you take in...
JAY SAMIT Design is how you make your first impression with your consumers. Make sure it is a lasting one.
JAY SAMIT Betting all your funds on the belief that you know what consumers want and are willing to pay for is...
JAY SAMIT The strength of brand loyalty begins with how your product makes people feel.
JAY SAMIT All too often, new hires have a different expectation of their job and responsibilities than the org...
JAY SAMIT Most startup entrepreneurs unnecessarily spend half their time and give up half their equity in sear...
JAY SAMIT The very first thing I tell every intern on the first day is that their internship exists solely on ...
JAY SAMIT For those that fear being taken advantage of by people working from home or on flexible schedules, I...
JAY SAMIT There is no better feeling than doing well while you are doing good. If you really want to meet the ...
JAY SAMIT Instead of focusing the traditional planning cycles where companies benchmark their businesses again...
JAY SAMIT YouTube began as a failed video-dating site. Twitter was a failed music service. In each case, the f...
JAY SAMIT Big ideas developed in a vacuum are doomed from the start. Feedback is the essential tool for buildi...
JAY SAMIT Entrepreneurs always begin the journey believing that they have the next big idea. They dream of the...
JAY SAMIT Onboarding starts with satisfying the most basic of Maslow's psychological needs: belonging. New...
JAY SAMIT For all founders, going public is a momentous milestone that has to be experienced to be fully under...
JAY SAMIT In order to protect against being disrupted, startups also need to recruit employees that are commit...
JAY SAMIT Whether by design or circumstance, every startup will eventually get disrupted.
JAY SAMIT Social media and personalization are providing both brand advertisers and end-users with hyper-targe...
JAY SAMIT Networking is all about connecting with people. But then again, isn't that what life is about? T...
JAY SAMIT Many first-time founders fail to understand the difference between the potential of the Total Addres...
JAY SAMIT State funds, private equity, venture capital, and institutional lending all have their role in the l...
JAY SAMIT On average, it takes as much as $100 million in paid media for a brand to be a household name in Ame...
JAY SAMIT Creating something that builds lasting value and changes the lives of millions of people requires fo...
JAY SAMIT By maintaining an active feedback system at every stage of a startup, founders can reduce their burn...
JAY SAMIT The secret to fundraising comes down to three magic words: before, more, and strategic.
JAY SAMIT There is a huge difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn d...
JAY SAMIT My job is to hire the best and brightest employees and empower them to do their best work. As a mana...
JAY SAMIT Some incubators, like Y Combinator and TechStars, were started by successful entrepreneurs wishing t...
JAY SAMIT As a serial investor who has raised hundreds of millions of dollars for startups, I know that the bu...
JAY SAMIT Every new startup business creates new opportunities. It doesn't matter whether you have a new a...
JAY SAMIT Numerous studies, and my own experience as a serial entrepreneur, have proven that companies with a ...
JAY SAMIT Silicon Valley's long-running track record of creating globally disruptive startups is the envy ...
JAY SAMIT Building a great team is the lifeblood of any startup, and finding great talent is one of the hardes...
JAY SAMIT The greatest challenge to most innovation centers around the world is many nations' punitive att...
JAY SAMIT Never expect that your startup can cover every aspect of the market. The key is knowing what segment...
JAY SAMIT Startups are now creating specialized 3-D printers capable of producing everything from synthetic ha...
JAY SAMIT As a serial entrepreneur, angel investor and public company CEO, nothing irks me more than when a st...
JAY SAMIT In my experience, there are only two valid reasons to take a company public: access to growth capita...
JAY SAMIT As counterintuitive as it sounds, 'speed to fail' should be every entrepreneur's motto. ...
JAY SAMIT Historically, more media has been consumed sitting in front of the television than any other device....
JAY SAMIT Distributers don't need massive amounts of square feet to stock digital products. Retailers don&...
JAY SAMIT Microsoft first entered the living room with Ultimate TV way back in 2000 - a year before Apple'...
JAY SAMIT Crowdsourcing is the ultimate disruptor of distribution because in a most Zen-like fashion, the cont...
JAY SAMIT The power of crowd sourcing always remains with the crowd, not the technological implementation.
JAY SAMIT The best big idea is only going to be as good as its implementation.
JAY SAMIT Our world's future is far more malleable and controllable than most people realize.
JAY SAMIT The joy of disruption comes from accepting that we all live in a temporal state.
JAY SAMIT In life, you get what you believe you deserve.
JAY SAMIT A free and open Internet is a despot's worst enemy.
JAY SAMIT The real challenge is for each of us to determine where we feel we can make the most impact.
JAY SAMIT No obstacle is so big that one person with determination can't make a difference.
JAY SAMIT I just don't see why having these powers makes it necessary for all of us to become politicians, war...
SAMIT BASU That's pretty ominous and obviously suggests some sort of hijacking plan.
HARRY SAMIT His excuse is weak, he just wants to learn how to do it... That's pretty ominous and obviously sugge...
HARRY SAMIT Although I did create problems for myself, I had no other choice.
HARRY SAMIT It would have triggered an immediate attempt to gather every piece of information we could about the...
HARRY SAMIT I told him I thought that was strange.
HARRY SAMIT I would have immediately sounded the alarm.
HARRY SAMIT The answers dictate the logical course of the interview. You can't ask logical follow-up questions i...
HARRY SAMIT When no one need you to comeback home.. Keep strong... Because they are still a home for you.. Your ...
JAY No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
JOHN JAY Rap for me is like making movies, telling stories, and getting the emotions of the songs through in ...
JAY-Z My mom had early rap records, like Jimmy Spicer. In the middle of the records was a turntable and a ...
JAY-Z When I listen to Radio 1 and hear five different tracks in a row using old disco samples, well that&...
JAY KAY I'm a mirror. If you're cool with me, I'm cool with you, and the exchange starts. What y...
JAY-Z Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because i...
JAY-Z I collect art, and I drink wine... things that I like that I had never been exposed to. But I never ...
JAY-Z Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama...
JAY-Z One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That&#...
JAY-Z I don't sit around with my friends and talk about money, ever. On a record, that's different...
JAY-Z All my businesses are part of the culture, so I have to stay true to whatever I'm feeling at the...
JAY-Z It's hilarious a lot of times. You have a conversation with someone, and he's like, 'You...
JAY-Z I'm far from being god, but I work god damn hard.
JAY-Z The burden of poverty isn't just that you don't always have the things you need, it's th...
JAY-Z I treat people based on who they really are, not the name. Everyone has to be respectful and be a hu...
JAY-Z I love what I do, and when you love what you do, you want to be the best at it.
JAY-Z Your job is to inspire people from your neighborhood to get out.
JAY-Z I've never looked at myself and said that I need to be a certain way to be around a certain sort...
JAY-Z The silencing of the rainforests is a double deforestation, not only of trees but a deforestation of...
JAY GRIFFITHS Belief in oneself and knowing who you are, I mean, that's the foundation for everything great.
JAY-Z Excellence is being able to perform at a high level over and over again. You can hit a half-court sh...
JAY-Z Clearly, many branches of science need an exquisite precision of timekeeping and the infinitesimal d...
JAY GRIFFITHS It was a very intense and stressful situation. There was playing in the Johnny-pump (an opened fire ...
JAY-Z We are a nation of immigrants, a quilt of many colors, and we've managed over more than two cent...
JAY PARINI I grew up in Marcy Projects in Brooklyn, and my mom and pop had an extensive record collection, so M...
JAY-Z The U.S. invaded Vietnam because many in our government - Lyndon Johnson's best and brightest - ...
JAY PARINI You get to a point in your career, I think, it's not even about money. You're secure. You wa...
JAY CUTLER We had an old Victrola with the old bulldog they used to have there. The horn would come out.
JAY MCSHANN Like every art form, there are jealousies and angers and competitiveness in magic. But there's c...
RICKY JAY By and large we have got to find the good leaders to work with to make sure that we build the streng...
JAY WEATHERILL The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't f...
JAY LENO In our consumer confidence surveys, we ask people whether they think government economic policy is g...
JAY SCHMIEDESKAMP I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out...
JAY LONDON Montreal is a great town. There's equal parts blue-collar town.
JAY BARUCHEL You know, Greenwich Village was the traditional bohemia of New York. I wish I could say that was ent...
JAY MCINERNEY If just the presence of Tidal causes other companies to have better pay structure or to pay more att...
JAY-Z Sitting with a deck of cards in your hand all day is an obsession. Visiting print shops and bookstor...
RICKY JAY I certainly think that the publishing houses have to learn more about this informal network of liter...
JAY MCINERNEY We used to play the Savoy Ballroom, and we always had a boogie tune in the set. Bands like Tommy Dor...
JAY MCSHANN To bolster his right flank and attract women voters, John McCain had cynically opted for a running m...
JAY PARINI What makes me different from everybody else just boils down to dissatisfaction.
JAY ELECTRONICA If God doesn't destroy Hollywood Boulevard, he owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology.
JAY LENO It is impossible to win a contest with a helpless opponent since if you win you have won nothing.
JAY HALEY It was a weird mix of emotions. One day, your best friend could be killed. The day before, you could...
JAY-Z First, this isn't about telecommuting, because we still have offices that people will come to re...
JAY CHIAT If you're confident after you've just finished an exam, it's because you don't know enough to know ...
JAY WEISMAN My goal is no longer to get more done, but rather to have less to do.
FRANCINE JAY Gareth Miller grabbed the beer first, then the hotdog, because if there’s one thing you don’t wa...
JAY NICHOLS You've got the look of a girl who's no stranger to the page. I can tell. You've got words in your so...
JAY KRISTOFF If you hear a song that makes you cry and you don’t want to cry anymore, you don’t listen to tha...
JAY ASHER Looking down into her eyes, I couldn’t help telling her I was sorry. Sorry for waiting so long to ...
JAY ASHER When you truly sing, you sing yourself free. When you truly dance, you dance yourself free. When you...
JAY WOODMAN Everything has its opposite within it.
Love can be very destructive if you mishandle it.
P...
JAY WOODMAN A lot of you cared, just not enough.
JAY ASHER We have the greatest power through love that can be known. It overcomes everything with its fierce a...
JAY WOODMAN Sometimes we have thoughts that even we don’t understand. Thoughts that aren’t even true—that ...
JAY ASHER You can't stop the future
You can't rewind the past
The only way to learn the secret
...
JAY ASHER Those who cannot remember the past will spend a lot of time looking for their cars in mall parking l...
JAY TRACHMAN If you don't believe in your product, of if you're not consistent and regular in the way you promote...
JAY LEVINSON In order to sell a product or a service, a company must establish a relationship with the consumer. ...
JAY LEVINSON The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had bot...
JAY LENO Drinking freshly made juices and eating enough whole foods to provide adequate fiber is a sensible a...
JAY KORDICH I'm uncomfortable when I'm comfortable. I have to start something new-in the agency or in my persona...
JAY CHIAT You start losing a client the moment you get it.
JAY CHIAT How big can we get before we get bad?
JAY CHIAT My real talent was for losing clients.
JAY CHIAT Now that I'm a client, I understand what a jerk I was.
JAY CHIAT The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong question...
ANTHONY JAY Martha Stewart stuffed and roasted canaries and found they could no longer sing.
JAY LENO The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questio...
ANTHONY JAY The pain and hurt which i feel, go as deep as it is real; to be around and yet unseen, takes the ...
JAY T Beauty is wherever you find it, and Beast is there when you need to defend it.
STACEY JAY But you can't get away from yourself. You can't decide not to see yourself anymore. You can't decide...
JAY ASHER You might get only one shot. So shoot. You know who said that?"
The rifle clatters to the blood...
JAY KRISTOFF You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
JAY LENO If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
JAY LENO I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. T...
JAY-Z The average rap life is two or three albums. You're lucky to get to your second album in rap!
JAY-Z At Motel 6 in Amish Country I wonder if they leave the light on for you?
JAY LONDON When the TV version of Annie came on, I was drawn to it. It was the struggle of this poor kid in thi...
JAY-Z The debate we won't be having is whether or not the debt ceiling should be raised. We will not h...
JAY CARNEY Being adequately informed is a democratic duty, just as the vote is a democratic right. A misinforme...
JAY GRIFFITHS Lincoln said that the Patent Office adds the flame of interest to the light of creativity. And that ...
JAY INSLEE I'm in this absolutely gorgeous manor house with acres of quite beautiful countryside. I've ...
JAY KAY I'm probably the only kid in history whose parents made him stop taking music lessons. They made...
RICKY JAY Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in diff...
JAY GRIFFITHS Today is Valentine's Day - or, as men like to call it, Extortion Day!
JAY LENO I think in London - and I don't wanna offend anybody in America, but this is a real statement - ...
JAY-Z Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said toda...
JAY LENO Marc Maron's podcast success has nothing to do with my podcast success. If I do a quarter of a m...
JAY MOHR I'm not gonna give the British Government the joy of keeping taxing me. They don't tax art. ...
JAY KAY Tolerance is carved into the rostrum of the U.S. House of Representatives and intolerance should not...
JAY INSLEE I think golf is a waste of time and a waste of a sunny afternoon. I also stink at it. I have never f...
JAY MOHR You've got to know how to hustle. I got a lot of inspiration from my parents. My father was defi...
JAY PHAROAH Diabetes is all about insulin levels and sugar levels and what you put in your body.
JAY CUTLER The whole point of the Resurrection stories - and the Resurrection itself - is that we don't rec...
JAY PARINI Bullying has been around forever, and so it became one of these issues that as an adult we look back...
JAY ASHER The 1st Congressional District contains almost half of the biotech and biomedical companies in Washi...
JAY INSLEE That's why this generation is the least racist generation ever. You see it all the time. Go to a...
JAY-Z I've got a nice collection of paintings - a Basquiat, a black-and-white Warhol that's like a...
JAY-Z I was forced to be an artist and a CEO from the beginning, so I was forced to be like a businessman ...
JAY-Z What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Spec...
JAY INSLEE I guess I need a hobby. Currently my primary hobby is complaining.
JAY DUPLASS Unlike other Jewish families, we didn't go out for Chinese food on Sundays, but we spent our tim...
RICKY JAY I've talked to Bill Clinton - he's the ultimate rock star; no one's more charming than h...
JAY-Z A proper respect for nature means that you can't pollute the air, poison the rivers and chop dow...
JAY PARINI I didn't go to many movies. My mom would make a family outing and bring chicken in the theater. ...
JAY-Z When your past shows up to haunt you, make sure it comes after supper so it doesn't ruin your whole ...
JAY WICKRE The Opposition aren't really the Opposition. They're just called the Opposition. But in fact...
ANTONY JAY Within the Christian tradition, fundamentalism arose in the 19th century as an effort to push back a...
JAY PARINI Colleges and classrooms should be havens of tranquility, places where thoughtful discussions occur, ...
JAY PARINI My girlfriend has crabs, I bought her fishnet stockings.
JAY LONDON All definitions of wilderness that exclude people seem to me to be false. African 'wilderness...
JAY GRIFFITHS Your mind will serve you better than any trinket under the suns...It is a weapon...and like any weap...
JAY KRISTOFF It's not unusual for socio-economic, even racial or ethnic, groups to cluster.
JAY PARINI I was a hunter and fisherman, and many a time I have slipped out into the woods and prairies at 4 a....
JAY COOKE I didn't realize it was October until I saw the Chicago Cubs choking.
JAY LENO It wasn't until sixth grade, at P.S. 168, when my teacher took us on a field trip to her house t...
JAY-Z It's your heart. No one else gets a say in that.
JAY ASHER As I get older and maybe a little bit wiser, you realize how much stuff affects your body and what i...
JAY CUTLER You eat as many vegetables as you can, and try to cut your carbs and your sugar. That's going to...
JAY CUTLER The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong question...
ANTONY JAY 'Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibili...
ANTONY JAY Men grow to the stature to which they are stretched when they are young.
ANTONY JAY He's suffering from Politicians' Logic. Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must...
ANTONY JAY You can judge a leader by the size of the problem he tackles. Other people can cope with the waves, ...
ANTONY JAY The Opposition aren't really the Opposition. They're just called the Opposition. But in fact they ar...
ANTONY JAY Men grow to the stature to which they are stretched when they are young
ANTONY JAY In every atom, there is a reflection of the whole.
JAY WOODMAN I think there is a case for strong action and intervention when there is criminality and when the le...
JAY WEATHERILL It all started when my dog began getting free roll over minutes.
JAY LONDON The first time I was homeless was when I went to Atlanta. I was in a homeless shelter, then when I g...
JAY ELECTRONICA I try to make music with emotion and integrity. And authenticity. You can feel when something's ...
JAY-Z The success of the second 'Austin Powers' caught us by surprise a little bit. We had decided...
JAY ROACH