James Daly Quotes

"People say we were an overnight success. It took us a year to be an overnight success."
- James Daly
(Related: Success, People)

"It's very rare that publications double their frequency."
- James Daly

"I'm a history buff, and right now we're sitting on one of the most dramatic historical shifts that this planet has ever seen and we have a front row seat for it."
- James Daly
(Related: History, Now, Right)

"I think what we should have done is integrate the web site with the magazine much earlier in the process."
- James Daly

"I think up until that time a lot of focus on Internet coverage was either sort of the bits and bytes aspect of it, sort of the high-tech aspect of it, and the sociological aspect of it, which is how it was transforming culture."
- James Daly
(Related: Time, Culture, Focus, Internet)

"There certainly was a lot of potential in the air for doing a magazine which focused on the way business, in particular, was being transformed by the Internet."
- James Daly
(Related: Business, Being, Internet, Potential)

"The hardest part of it was really being away from my family - I have two small children. Last year I took over 20 business trips, so being away from them was hard."
- James Daly
(Related: Business, Family, Being, Children)

"The collective energy of everyone is what really made Business 2.0 exciting."
- James Daly
(Related: Business, Energy)

"The best rock musicians are the most exciting people in the world."
- James Daly
(Related: People, Musicians, World)

"See, what we were going to do was say, the Internet is this great business strategy tool."
- James Daly
(Related: Business, Strategy, Internet)

"Rock stars are incredibly energizing to me."
- James Daly
(Related: Stars)

"People who say that the Internet is the bubble are incredibly misguided."
- James Daly
(Related: People, Internet)

"You can't be distracted by the noise of misinformation."
- James Daly

"The story of the Internet is this incredibly strong, exciting change."
- James Daly
(Related: Change, Internet)

"I think Fast Company has a tremendously smart focus and execution."
- James Daly
(Related: Company, Execution, Focus)

"You have to remember a lot of business is very cyclical."
- James Daly
(Related: Business)

"There was never any danger of Business 2.0 ever going under."
- James Daly
(Related: Business, Danger)

"You've just got to focus on excellence and try not to be distracted by the news and the rumors and the absurdities of the stories that were coming out."
- James Daly
(Related: Excellence, Focus, News, Rumors)

"You lie awake at 3 in the morning thinking of story ideas. You're online at 8 a.m. on a Sunday or midnight on a Wednesday. It's a job that you never push aside."
- James Daly
(Related: Lie, Ideas, Job, Midnight, Thinking)

"You have to remember when we were going once a month, we were putting out issues that were 480 pages, and people were complaining that these were too big, I can't get through a 480 page magazine every month."
- James Daly
(Related: People, Complaining)

"The magazine was being started by a company that had no experience in business magazine publishing. It was a little difficult to get people to sort of buy into it and to join the staff, but we did."
- James Daly
(Related: Business, Experience, People, Being, Company, Publishing)

"The stock market can be down, but the stock market is not an indication of where people's spirits and enthusiam are, and where their intellectual energy is."
- James Daly
(Related: People, Energy, Spirits)

"I got to sit down with people who I admired, and have conversations with some of the greatest thinkers and artists and performers. It's a huge privilege for me to be a journalist."
- James Daly
(Related: People, Artists, Privilege)

"Certainly there are bubble-like valuations of certain companies, but I don't think anyone out there believes that we're going to go back to doing business the way we used to do business."
- James Daly
(Related: Business)

"Business people have been made into these rock stars because they've made a lot of money."
- James Daly
(Related: Business, Money, People, Stars)

"Business 2.0 was hugely profitable last year, and will be profitable this year."
- James Daly
(Related: Business, Will)

"And I love writing. I've always loved writing."
- James Daly
(Related: Love, Writing)

"I still believe that the mission of Business 2.0 is very strong, very fundamental, and we're really at the beginning of where they're going to take us."
- James Daly
(Related: Business, Beginning, Mission)

"You know, technology CEOs like to think of themselves as rock 'n roll stars."
- James Daly
(Related: Technology, Stars)