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James Daly
American
Actor
About the author
You can't suppress creativity, you can't suppress innovation.
James Daly,
American
Actor
#Creativity
#Innovation
People say we were an overnight success. It took us a year to be an overnight success.
James Daly,
American
Actor
#People
#Success
It's very rare that publications double their frequency.
James Daly,
American
Actor
I'm a history buff, and right now we're sitting on one of the most dramatic historical shifts that this planet has ever seen and we have a front row seat for it.
James Daly,
American
Actor
#Right
#Now
#History
I think what we should have done is integrate the web site with the magazine much earlier in the process.
James Daly,
American
Actor
I think up until that time a lot of focus on Internet coverage was either sort of the bits and bytes aspect of it, sort of the high-tech aspect of it, and the sociological aspect of it, which is how it was transforming culture.
James Daly,
American
Actor
#Time
#Culture
#Focus
#Internet
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.
James Daly,
American
Actor
#Being
#Business
#Potential
#Internet
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.
James Daly,
American
Actor
#Children
#Family
#Being
#Business
The collective energy of everyone is what really made Business 2.0 exciting.
James Daly,
American
Actor
#Business
#Energy
The best rock musicians are the most exciting people in the world.
James Daly,
American
Actor
#People
#World
#Musicians
See, what we were going to do was say, the Internet is this great business strategy tool.
James Daly,
American
Actor
#Business
#Internet
#Strategy
Rock stars are incredibly energizing to me.
James Daly,
American
Actor
#Stars
People who say that the Internet is the bubble are incredibly misguided.
James Daly,
American
Actor
#People
#Internet
You can't be distracted by the noise of misinformation.
James Daly,
American
Actor
The story of the Internet is this incredibly strong, exciting change.
James Daly,
American
Actor
#Change
#Internet
I think Fast Company has a tremendously smart focus and execution.
James Daly,
American
Actor
#Execution
#Focus
#Company
You have to remember a lot of business is very cyclical.
James Daly,
American
Actor
#Business
There was never any danger of Business 2.0 ever going under.
James Daly,
American
Actor
#Business
#Danger
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.
James Daly,
American
Actor
#Focus
#Excellence
#News
#Rumors
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.
James Daly,
American
Actor
#Thinking
#Ideas
#Job
#Lie
#Midnight
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.
James Daly,
American
Actor
#People
#Complaining
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.
James Daly,
American
Actor
#People
#Being
#Experience
#Publishing
#Business
#Company
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.
James Daly,
American
Actor
#People
#Spirits
#Energy
I got to sit down with people who I admired, and have conversations with some of the greatest thinkers and artists and performers. It's a huge privilege for me to be a journalist.
James Daly,
American
Actor
#People
#Artists
#Privilege
Certainly there are bubble-like valuations of certain companies, but I don't think anyone out there believes that we're going to go back to doing business the way we used to do business.
James Daly,
American
Actor
#Business
Business people have been made into these rock stars because they've made a lot of money.
James Daly,
American
Actor
#People
#Money
#Stars
#Business
Business 2.0 was hugely profitable last year, and will be profitable this year.
James Daly,
American
Actor
#Will
#Business
And I love writing. I've always loved writing.
James Daly,
American
Actor
#Love
#Writing
I still believe that the mission of Business 2.0 is very strong, very fundamental, and we're really at the beginning of where they're going to take us.
James Daly,
American
Actor
#Business
#Beginning
#Mission
You know, technology CEOs like to think of themselves as rock 'n roll stars.
James Daly,
American
Actor
#Technology
#Stars