“We have customers to serve and we can’t frickin do that if nobody is here. I like competitors that are still sitting at home. They’ll miss the trains when they go by.” David Farr, CEO, Emerson Electric
“Everything is fubar.” Jamie Dimon, CEO, JPMorgan, commenting on the COVID economy.
Mark and I “disagree all the time but we tell each other and support each other. I serve at the pleasure of Mark and the board.” Sheryl Sandburg, Facebook COO
“Human beings need transitions. Human attention is precious, and it’s not infinite. It needs punctuation marks.” Without them, “our attention becomes an incoherent run-on sentence.” Daniel Pink, author
“I do not support this process moving forward. Now having said that, this process is moving forward with or without me.” Senator Lisa Murkowski on voting to confirm a Supreme Court nominee.
“I’m just astounded by the dysfunction, the willingness to just stay the course as hundreds of thousands of people die, and the unwillingness to innovate in literally any way.” Michael Mina, Harvard epidemiologist, on society’s decision making during COVID.
“Effective competition may not always be best achieved by imposing fines.” And then during the same interview, “If you have taken out a tool out of a toolbox and have some experience using it, it’s more likely that you’ll use it again.” Margrethe Vestager, European Union Competition Czar
“We don’t want to grow for the sake of growing. We want to grow profitably.” Jochen Zeitz, CEO, Harley-Davidson
“The last thing an EV startup should be looking to do is build its own factory.” Henrik Fisker, Danish car designer
“We’ve done tremendous damage to our economy, shutting it down like we did. You have to trust people to make good decisions. They’re the best people to decide about their families, their bodies and their lives, and I have more confidence in individuals than I do in government to make decisions.” John Mackey, Whole Foods
“Your life begins when you are born, but your life story begins at that moment when you discover that you are in the wrong family.” Philip Pullman, author, His Dark Materials
“There is an overall dynamism in the business right now because everything is in flux. You can’t assume anything. You have to be led by the data, in real time, to develop an agile response in how you show up to customers.” John Burke, Global Chief Marketing Officer, Bacardi