Quotes by James Daly

• You can't suppress creativity, you can't suppress innovation.
• People say we were an overnight success. It took us a year to be an overnight success.
• It's very rare that publications double their frequency.
• 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.
• I think what we should have done is integrate the web site with the magazine much earlier in the process.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• The collective energy of everyone is what really made Business 2.0 exciting.
• The best rock musicians are the most exciting people in the world.
• See, what we were going to do was say, the Internet is this great business strategy tool.
• Rock stars are incredibly energizing to me.
• People who say that the Internet is the bubble are incredibly misguided.
• You can't be distracted by the noise of misinformation.
• The story of the Internet is this incredibly strong, exciting change.
• I think Fast Company has a tremendously smart focus and execution.
• You have to remember a lot of business is very cyclical.
• There was never any danger of Business 2.0 ever going under.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Business people have been made into these rock stars because they've made a lot of money.
• Business 2.0 was hugely profitable last year, and will be profitable this year.
• And I love writing. I've always loved 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.
• You know, technology CEOs like to think of themselves as rock 'n roll stars.