Seth Godin:

Get in the habit of winning, of shipping, of having customers that can't live without you. Then go after the windmills.

said one marketer, of Yahoo's prospects, via Kara Swisher, in April:

Maybe they will surprise me. But I doubt it.

Clay Shirky:

Nothing will work, but everything might.

Caterina Fake:

Much more important than working hard is knowing how to find the right thing to work on.

Ezra Klein:

The implicit assumption of these arguments about strategy is that there is, somewhere out there, a workable strategy.

Rick Carew, Douglas MacMillan and David Benoit, this week:

The fate of troubled Internet portal Yahoo Inc. may be decided in a marathon series of board meetings this week.

Richard Holbrooke:

Only with hindsight can one look back and see that the smartest course may not have been the right one.