James Daly Quotes

You’ve just got to focus on excellence and try not to be distracted by the news and the rumors and the absurdities of the stories that were coming out.

You lie awake at 3 in the morning thinking of story ideas. You’re online at 8 a.m. on a Sunday or midnight on a Wednesday. It’s a job that you never push aside.

You know, technology CEOs like to think of themselves as rock ‘n roll stars.

You have to remember when we were going once a month, we were putting out issues that were 480 pages, and people were complaining that these were too big, I can’t get through a 480 page magazine every month.

You have to remember a lot of business is very cyclical.

You can’t be distracted by the noise of misinformation.

There was never any danger of Business 2.0 ever going under.

There certainly was a lot of potential in the air for doing a magazine which focused on the way business, in particular, was being transformed by the Internet.

The story of the Internet is this incredibly strong, exciting change.

The stock market can be down, but the stock market is not an indication of where people’s spirits and enthusiam are, and where their intellectual energy is.

The magazine was being started by a company that had no experience in business magazine publishing. It was a little difficult to get people to sort of buy into it and to join the staff, but we did.

The hardest part of it was really being away from my family – I have two small children. Last year I took over 20 business trips, so being away from them was hard.

The collective energy of everyone is what really made Business 2.0 exciting.

The best rock musicians are the most exciting people in the world.

See, what we were going to do was say, the Internet is this great business strategy tool.

Rock stars are incredibly energizing to me.

People who say that the Internet is the bubble are incredibly misguided.

People say we were an overnight success. It took us a year to be an overnight success.

It’s very rare that publications double their frequency.