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Power Point: You can’t trade money for years
“I would give up all the money I have if I could be 50. You can always make money.” –David Rubenstein, managing director of the Carlyle Group, in the New York Times. One of America’s more low-key...
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Power Point: Progress comes in fits and starts
“Progress comes in fits and starts and we’re going to need to grind out this recovery.” –President Obama, responding to today’s dismal jobs report that showed much greater losses than expected. The...
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NBC Sports boss’s big win
"The N.F.L. is more of a guarantee of success than if you got Brad Pitt, George Clooney and Angelina Jolie to do an hour drama series for the network. You can't guarantee that it will be a ratings...
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Power Point: Grab mindshare while you can
"You're seeing less of Ford and G.M. and more of Oscar Mayer and Kellogg." – George Belch, chairman of the marketing department at San Diego State University, in the New York Times. While financial...
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Power Point: Pepsi’s innovation challenge
“The age of thrift is here. You have to do innovation at both ends–premium innovation and innovation for the value consumer.” – PepsiCo chairman and CEO Indra Nooyi in a recent Q&A with Pattie...
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Power Point: Triathlete with heart transplant races the Ironman
“It would put an exclamation point on my recovery.” – Kyle Garlett, the first triathlete to compete in the Ironman World Championship with someone else’s heart. Tomorrow is a special day: Garlett will...
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Power Point: Find out what you are good at
“Ultimately if you can put a wall up, if you can paint, if you can work with other people and, most important, if you find out what you are good at, that’s the key.” – British chef Jamie Oliver, in the...
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Power Point: Be the boss of your career
"The lesson of today is that you're working for yourself." –Janice Bryant Howroyd, founder and CEO of staffing company Act 1 Personnel Services, in The New York Times. Howroyd’s advice is yet another...
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Apple’s Steve Jobs: Choose what you do with your life and make it count
“We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we’ve chosen to do with our...
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Power Point: American medicine overpromised on cancer screening
“I’m admitting that American medicine has overpromised when it comes to screening. The advantages to screening have been exaggerated.” – Dr. Otis Brawley, chief medical officer of the American Cancer...
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Power Point: Life is long but time is short
“Life is long but time is short.” – Google CEO Eric Schmidt, on acting boldly and taking risks. This line--along with points about passion and vision and keeping customers first--is one of 10 lessons...
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Power Point: It’s never too late to start over
“Basically, he's just starting 'A.I.G. Two' and raiding people out of 'A.I.G. One." –Douglas A. Love, an insurance executive whose company employs former AIG talent. Love, speaking to The New York...
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Power Point: The relationship trumps the issue
“The relationship trumps the issue.” –Premal Shah, President of Kiva, the microfinance website that connects citizen lenders with entrepreneurs around the world. I interviewed Shah for Fortune‘s list...
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Power Point: Get customer-facing!
"If you're interested in an entrepreneurial career, find yourself in a customer-facing job." – Greg Waldorf, CEO of eHarmony. I had lunch today with Waldorf, who was was a founding investor in the...
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Buffett’s bet to keep jobs in America
“If you buy a railroad, you can’t move it to China or to India or anyplace else. You are betting on the United States. I can’t think of a surer bet.” - Warren Buffett, explaining Berkshire Hathaway’s...
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Power Point: What would Steve Jobs do?
“The threshold for the release of the first product should be, ‘What would Steve Jobs do?'” – Marc Andreessen, venture capitalist and Netscape co-founder, who often evokes Apple ‘s maestro CEO in his...
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Power Point: Get involved in the details
“He’s involved in details you wouldn’t think a CEO would be involved in." –Ken Segall, a former Chiat/Day creative director who has worked with Apple on and off for years, talking about Steve Jobs,...
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Power Point: What drives Steve Jobs
"There hasn’t been a day in Steve’s life that he doesn’t get up, think about the company he works for, or what he’s going to do next. These are things that drive him." –Bill Campbell, Intuit chairman...
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Power Point: Steve Jobs, message master
“A key Jobs business tool is his mastery of the message. He rehearses over and over every line he and others utter in public about Apple, which authorizes only a small number of executives to speak...
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Power Point: Whitney warns of state troubles
"If previous crises provide any indication of what lies ahead, FY2011 may be even more challenging than 2010." – Meredith Whitney, or Meredith Whitney Advisory Group, in a report on mounting fiscal...
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Power Point: It’s all about the hair
“The hair is 75 percent of my performance.” – Actor Robert Pattinson, who stars as vampire heartthrob Edward Cullen in the screen version of the literary sensation, Twilight. In a Q&A in the...
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Power Point: Go for lead dog
“As every Iditarod musher knows, if you’re not the lead dog, the view never changes.” – Sarah Palin, in Going Rogue. Yep, she’s ambitious–and No. 1 on Amazon.com.
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Power Point: To friend or unfriend?
“‘Unfriend’ has real lex-appeal.” – Christine Lindberg, senior lexicographer for the Oxford University Press’s U.S. dictionary program. Today The New Oxford American Dictionary revealed that ‘unfriend’...
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Power Point: How to pick a magazine cover
“Young is better than old, Pretty is better than ugly, Rich is better than poor, T.V. is better than music, Music is better than movies, Movies are better than sports, Anything is better than politics,...
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Power Point: Oprah says, “Own yourself”
"If I lost control of the business, I'd lose myself–or at least the ability to be myself. Owning myself is a way to be myself." –Oprah Winfrey, in “The Business of Being Oprah,” a 2002 cover story that...
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Power Point: Heed the ham!
“All of a sudden this ham… hit me full long in the face and ’bout knocked me cuckoo.” –Celebrity cook and Food Network star Paula Deen, who was hit in the face by a ham today while volunteering at an...
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Balance your life: Beyond the five-ball juggle
I just got an email from Deep Blue. He’s an anonymous source of my boss, Fortune Managing Editor Andy Serwer. Deep Blue emails me too. A faithful reader of Postcards as well as Fortune, he prods and...
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Facebook COO Sandberg on making it to the top
by Patricia Sellers Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg wrote one of the most-read Guest Posts ever on Postcards. “Don’t Leave Before You Leave” ranks second in popularity to a post written by my 93-year-old...
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Career Rx: Raise the roof and reinvent
by Patricia Sellers Delivering a talk on Women and Power in Princeton on Thursday night, I tossed out a term that the crowd really liked: Raise the roof! As I told the 400 people gathered at the YWCA...
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A boss’s advice to young grads
Vernon Jordan Credit: LazardBusiness bigwigs across the land have been taking to podiums and advising young people how to succeed. Few graduation speakers have life stories and lessons as rich as...
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