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Michael Hiemstra: “I was struggling far too long for this post’s title. I started with a “A Window on Microsoft”, but blogs are not exactly a window. More like a pinhole. And it’s not like you are really looking in… it’s more like you’re viewing the bits that are oozing out of the pinholes!”

Tim Weiler:

I am absolutely 100% positive that sales of Syncura will wildly surpass my current salary. So what the hell am I doing strapped to my cubicle at work?

“You’re supporting your wife and kid and ensuring that we don’t get thrown out on the street”, my wife tells me.

She’s right. I can’t quit until it’s clear that I’m right about Syncura.

Scott Clark: “4. Espousing entrepreneurial arrogance. When you have a one-person business, you are in charge of everything, but as your workforce grows you need to maximize productivity. Even if you think you know it all, you need to let go, train your employees within an inch of their lives and then concentrate on providing the tools they need to do the best job possible.”

Alex Bendig: “If you cannot provide the top talent in your development team with challenges appropriate to their skill level, they will tend to believe they are wasting their time and talent. Overcoming boredom is not an acceptable challenge.”

Jason Calacanis:

Associate: “Mmmm…. well, you’ve done a lot of cool stuff, but I mean what do you consider your advantage?”

Me: “Hustle.”

Associate: “So your business is based on hustle?”

Me: “Isn’t every business?”

Associate: “I’ve never heard that.”

Me: “They don’t teach hustle at Harvard’s MBA program?”

Associate: “I went to Wharton.”

Kathy Sierra: “What if instead of adding new features, a company concentrated on making the service or product much easier to use? Or making it much easier to access the advanced features it already has, but that few can master?”

Bob Parsons: “It’s your job to make sure each and every employee in your organization understands that they all should have one simple charter. At the end of the day, in some small way, they need to be a little better.”

Joel Spolsky: “Or, roughly speaking, if you try to skimp on programmers, you’ll make crappy software, and you won’t even save that much money.”

Norm Brodsky:

But it appeared to me that, among people who do interior decorating, the habit of taking customers for granted had been institutionalized, and I assumed I was in for another such experience when we hired a decorator for a new apartment we’d bought in Florida last year. Her name was Rosalie Modansky. She wasted no time letting us know that she didn’t work like other decorators. Once we’d agreed on a budget, she explained that she charged a flat fee for her services. “I’ll guide you in the buying,” she said. “I’ll take you places and show you things. But you can pick out anything you want from anywhere you want. It doesn’t matter to me. I don’t make money on what you spend.”

Philip Greenspun: “I’ve decided to amuse myself and, I hope, inspire some young hard-working folks, by writing up ideas for businesses that should be profitable. Here’s the first one: http://philip.greenspun.com/business/chinese-rv“