Sublime

The Valley’s venture investors were typically Boston merchant princes, men such as Israel Thorndike, S. A. Eliot, Samuel Cabot, Francis Stanton, and Harrison Gray Otis. Edmund Dwight, a Morgan cousin on his mother’s side, wasn’t in the same financial stratum as a Cabot, but gained access through his work at the law firm of Fisher Ames, the old Mass

When you had $22.5 billion, people really, really wanted to be your friend. They’d forgive you anything. Their desire freed you up from having to pay attention to them, which was good, because Sam had only so much attention to give.

It seems to me that Mr Kreuger’s policy is to carefully select the man for each post and then to give him complete responsibility for the duties therein involved. I was considerably impressed with the complete harmony with which the organizations function and the extreme confidence that each one has in the other. There seems to be throughout the en

We said to ourselves, “As long as we’re breaking our butts, let’s go and do it for ourselves.” Then we found out that Mike Ovitz and Ron Meyer were talking about doing the same thing.

But then another agent said, “When I spoke with him a bit later, he sounded a little more into it,” so I thought, Oh, okay, these two guys represent Chris Reeve. And then another person says, “I think there’s an outsider contender here, he was talking about this other script.” I remember nudging the person next to me and asking, “Who represents Chr

The secret of his success was his ability to attract exceptionally able men, and to treat them with so much respect that they never left.