Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and read more

Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your read more

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - read more

In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from read more

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.

There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.

Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard).

Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard).

Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.

Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.

Business is a game, the greatest game in the world if you know how to play it.

Business is a game, the greatest game in the world if you know how to play it.

Despatch is the soul of business.

Despatch is the soul of business.