by Patricia Sellers and Jessica Shambora
We took a break from posting our daily Power Point--Postcards' quote of the day--last week, but we collected more than a few good ones at Fortune Brainstorm Tech in Pasadena. Here are our 10 favorites, from the mouths of media moguls, tech titans, Tweeters and more.
"It's not really my thing. I don't go to the dentist. I don't do things that cause me to emote." -- IAC (IAC) chairman and CEO Barry Diller, talking about why he's not on Twitter.
"We want to be like Ron Howard." - Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, noting that he doesn't want his two-year-old company to turn out like childhood actors "who grew up all freaky."
"I shut down a website everyday because I send too much traffic from my Twitter feed." - actor Ashton Kutcher, who has 2.9 million followers on Twitter.
"You can get so focused on expanding your current business model that innovation slows down." - eBay (EBAY) CEO John Donahoe, on how the e-commerce giant stumbled.
"You can't play catch up. The gig in the on-line world is how to capture new behaviors." -- News Corp. chief digital officer Jon Miller, on how he aims to revitalize MySpace, which has lost ground to Facebook.
"I've learned more about my daughters on their Facebook pages than I did while I was raising them." -- Walt Disney (DIS) CEO Bob Iger.
"I don't think I could get my wife to say that about me, so I don't think I could say that about a business partner." -- AT&T (T) CEO Randall Stephenson, on whether he's completely satisfied with his company's relationship with Apple (AAPL).
"[We're taking] what used to be a goofy gimmick [and turning] it into great platform for storytelling." -- Dreamworks (DWA) CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg, on 3D technology.
"Real value in a world of infinite choice is someone making choices for you." -- NBC Entertainment (GE) co-chair Ben Silverman, four days before disclosing that he's leaving to partner with IAC's Barry Diller on a new venture.
"The Internet puts people like politicians out of business." Former Governor of Vermont and chairman of the Democratic National Party Howard Dean, explaining how new tools on the web like Twitter have disrupted the political game.
Did you notice something missing from this Power Point list? Women. We had some top women in tech with us at Brainstorm--Google's (GOOG) Marissa Mayer, Ning CEO Gina Bianchini, Cisco CTO Padmasree Warrior--but guys dominated the stage and uttered the most provocative lines. Calling Carol Bartz! The Yahoo (YHOO) CEO, along with a tremendous lineup of leaders, will be with us at the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit this coming September.
"Advertisers have made it clear that they want a safe environment unpolluted by videos of cats on skateboards."
-- Jeff Zucker, CEO of General Electric's (GE) NBC Universal, in the New York Times. On Thursday ABC, owned by Disney (DIS), announced that it would begin showing its programs on Hulu.com, a joint venture established by NBC and News Corporation's (NWS.A) Fox. The move further casts the video site as the home MORE
Jessica Shambora, Writer-Reporter - Apr 30, 2009 6:50 PM ET
I went out to lunch today. Really. Even as you've read this week about the slashing and shrinking inside my company, Time Inc. (TWX), and across the magazine industry (even Conde Nast, the proud, privately-held protector of privilege and perks is axing), I have to eat. I have to schmooze. My job depends upon it.
Allow me to defend the expense-account lunch. Here are my rules of (lunchtime) engagement, honed over MORE
Patricia Sellers - Oct 31, 2008 3:56 PM ET
"In this world of fragmentation, any leadership position is extremely valuable because people are so much harder to reach."
-- News Corp. (NWS) president and COO Peter Chernin, in an interview with my colleague Richard Siklos last week at Fortune Brainstorm Tech. Chernin also said that innovation is today's "central management challenge."
Patricia Sellers - Jul 28, 2008 3:44 PM ET
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Pattie Sellers has written some of Fortune's most talked-about cover stories, including "Oprah's Next Act," "Can Meg Whitman Save California?" "The $100 Billion Woman" (Melinda Gates), "MySpace Cowboys," Martha Stewart ("I cannot be destroyed"), Ted Turner ("Gone with the Wind") and Oprah Winfrey ("Oprah Inc."). Since its launch in 1998, Pattie has helped oversee Fortune's "Most Powerful Women" cover package.
A specialist at dissecting larger-than-life personalities, she has also profiled former U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, Morgan Stanley chairman John Mack, and countless CEOs.
Pattie co-chairs the annual Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit, the preeminent gathering of women leaders in business, philanthropy, government, academia, and the arts. She started at Fortune in 1984, covering the big brand companies.
In Pattie's blog, Postcards, she provides insight into the lives of super-achievers through commentary, career advice, and Guest Posts by CEOs and other leaders.
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