Quote of the Day

"It is not the law that non-privileged communication become inadmissible because to explain it, privileged communications or agreements must be disclosed."

- Judge Richard A. Kramer, San Francisco, in response to efforts by memory manufacturers to hide from the jury evidence of their meetings . . .

Quote of the Day

You can never get enough of what you don't want.

- Wayne Dyer

Indeed

We must recognize that it is not nearly so helpful to do things for people as it is to create the conditions in which people can do things for themselves.

-George McGovern

Christmas gift suggestions

To your enemy, forgiveness.
To an opponent, tolerance.
To a friend, your heart.
To a customer, service.
To all, charity.
To every child, a good example.
To yourself, respect.
-Oren Arnold

Quote of the Day

"The Truth is rarely pure and never simple." -Oscar Wilde

Quote of the Day

Best quote about the sell off:

"This is worse than divorce, I've lost half my money and still have my wife/(husband) ."

HT JRW

Quote of the Day

Did Harold Hughes, CEO, Rambus Inc., take a peek ahead in his Quote of the Day calendar and then decide to pull the trigger on Nvidia?

Sustainability cannot be simply about being nice. It has to be about business logic." --Patrick Cescau, CEO of Unilever

HT - Harold Hughes for standing tall

Rock on . . .

Finish every day and be done with it.
You have done what you could.
Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in;
Forget them as soon as you can.
Tomorrow is a new day;
Begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
This day is all that is good and fair.
It is too dear with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thought of the Day

Some people are like Slinky's . . . they're not really good for anything, but they bring a smile to your face when pushed down the stairs . . .

Author Unknown

HT The1stBA

Quote of the Day

When somebody is complaining about your product, they are saying, 'I would love to love you but I cannot currently.' These people will become your most passionate users if you listen to them and if you take action.

Marten Mickos, SVP Sun Microsystems

TAing Rambus Inc.

Is thought to be sublime by some on the IV board. I'd rely on Mr. Carlin's predictions . . .

Weather forecast for tonight: dark.
. . . . George Carlin, actor & comedian

Micron takes the Einstein approach

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
--Albert Einstein, German-born Swiss-American physicist

Imagination . . .

“Micron believes that Rambus has engaged in a pattern of deception, destruction of evidence, false testimony and other improper activities designed to mislead and to extract unjust patent licensing fees and damages. We will continue to vigorously advance our claims that Rambus has engaged in a variety of illegal activities designed to injure Micron,” said Rod Lewis, Micron’s Vice President of Legal Affairs and General Counsel.

Knowledge . . .

Rambus Inc. (Nasdaq:RMBS) today announced . . . The jury determined that Rambus acted properly while a member of the standard-setting organization JEDEC during its participating in the early 1990s, finding that the memory manufacturers did not meet their burden of proving antitrust and fraud claims. This verdict should complete the case involving Hynix. Hynix was found by a previous jury in April 2006 to infringe a variety of Rambus patents. In that phase of trial, Rambus was awarded $133.6M in damages.

This is reality

"Every memorandum will leak. Every memorandum marked 'confidential' will leak even faster."

Robert Reich, former U.S. secretary of Labor

" . . . and it will leak to the party you most don't want to read it."

Any Donkey, Animal Farm resident

Selection . . .

"Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win."
. . . Jonathan Kozol, American nonfiction writer & educator

A bitter view of life

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.

Clarence Darrow, American lawyer

You make it happen

A dozen years ago it was written:

The sad news is, nobody owes you a career. Your career is literally your business. You own it as a sole proprietor. You have one employee: yourself. You are in competition with millions of similar businesses: millions of other employees all over the world. You need to accept ownership of your career, your skills and the timing of your moves. It is your responsibility to protect this personal business of yours from harm and to position it to benefit from the changes in the environment. Nobody else can do that for you.

Andrew S. Grove in 1996

Quote of the Day

When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest."
--William Hazlitt, English essayist and literary critic

National Restuarant Association SmartBrief

Quote of the Day

When you're angry, never put it in writing. It's like carving your anger in stone. That makes implacable enemies."

- - Estee Lauder

Quotes of the Day

Don't give advice unless you're asked.

- Amy Alcott, professional golfer


Don't give advice unless you're paid - people value what they pay for.

- Any Donkey, consultant

Remembering the little guy

The day I'm laid out dead with an apple in my mouth is the day we'll pay commissions. If you pay commissions, you imply that the small customer isn't worth anything."

Bernard Marcus, Co-Founder

The Home Depot

HT The1stBA & National Restaurant Association SmartBrief