Entrepreneur - Jodie Cook (Page 9)

What do you do except hang around the kitchen?

I recently listened to entrepreneur-turned-lecturer A.J. Wasserstein talk about life after he sold his company and found it resonated hugely.

After deciding I wanted to get back in the arena, the plan was to come up with a hundred million dollar idea that we could throw the kitchen sink at.

A company’s culture isn’t defined by its CEO.

What have been your biggest business-changing decisions?

One key difference between entrepreneurs that make it and those that don’t is focus.

I once attended a lecture by a university professor who joked that he saw the world of business as a petri dish.

When a decision came down to price alone, my dad asked the question, “What do you work for?”

Bud Tribble, longstanding colleague of Steve Jobs, created a concept to describe a phenomenon that happened when you were in Jobs’ vicinity.

Have you ever had someone ask a question that you know you know the answer to, but you can’t quite find it?