You don't know this when you're young, but over time, you see that great companies are usually built at a special point in time.

David Duffield

Categorized in : You Know Great Time

Flame mails and offensive Internet activities are not classy. It doesn't fit with our culture here, where we respect the gender, race, opinions, ear-lobe apparel and choice of clothing of all employees.

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I think I've done a good job in the industry from the standpoint of employee morale and customer satisfaction, and as an innovative thinker in tech.

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It's a special thing to be a public company.

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With a private company, you've got to get into who's investing and what's the balance sheet like. So going public is a positive thing from the perspective of the sales organization.

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I had come out of retirement into a very difficult situation with the PeopleSoft takeover, got through it, and was having a good time, frankly. We just ran out of runway at PeopleSoft. Had we had another year, maybe two years, I think we would have made it.

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Yeah, I could go rock on the back porch and do crossword puzzles - but I've got six kids, ages 9 to 16, and someone in the family should work. That's me.

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Being nice and competitive are two different things.

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I'll sweep the floors. I've picked up napkins in the men's room. I'm not above anything.

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What I want is the general betterment of pets. No-kill is a part of that. I'd like to see that policy enacted at all SPCA-type organizations around the country.

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I'm sort of a foot-on-the-gas kind of guy.

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I just don't like being overweight.

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