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Jeong Kim
President of Bell Labs
I spent all my time building my own computer, designing and building. And then, in the process, I learned through my faculty advisor that there was this new start-up company called Digitus. It was started by a guy who just created it from Johns Hopkins, and a professor, and a couple of other people. And, I joined that company and became a part owner right away and became a partner because at that point in time the computer was all new, and the fact that I was young didn't really matter. I'm a reasonably quick learner, and I had enough patience to become an engineer and contribute positively. So, I worked as a design engineer. That company did extremely well.
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Jeong Kim
President of Bell Labs
You cannot build a business thinking about somebody's going to buy it. You have to think in terms of creating value. Again, like I said, you've got to take one step at a time, especially if you are a small company. You know, you can think too far long-term and you can starve to death. So, you have to think about one step at a time and creating the value. And, if the value gets created that is worthwhile for somebody else, they will make an offer and therefore your options are open.
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James V. Kimsey
Founding Chairman,
America Online
America Online has created a new medium. And we -- deliberately at the outset, because we were not sure what technologies would prevail -- did it in a very modular way. So, we don't care what the pipes are to get to the consumer, whether they're wireless, whether they're ISDN, whether they're cable, whether they're twisted pair. We've been premature in our anticipation of consumer behavior habits. We put a lot of resources into the Newton, thinking that a lot of people were going to carry those things around with them, and you haven't heard or seen a Newton in a long time.
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B.B. King
King of the Blues
I'd go to town on Saturday, after I would get through with my tractor, and sit on the street corners with my little guitar. I had a red Stella guitar, and I'd play and I'd sing, starting with gospel all the time. I'd sing me a gospel song and people would -- and I guess I was kind of smart in a way because I knew where the white people passed and the black people passed, so I'd sit right at that corner where the white folks had to pass me going this way and that way and the black folks passed me going this way and that way. So, some or all would stop and listen to me because I guess I made enough noise. I had my big hat sitting down there, or a bucket or something for them to put tips in. And, people that would ask me to play, or request a song -- when I finished playing it, if it was a gospel song they would pat me on the head and the shoulders and they would applaud. "Boy, that was nice. Keep it up. You're going to be good one day." But they didn't put nothing in the hat. But, the people who would ask me to play a blues would always put something in the hat. Now you know why I'm a blues singer. That's how it started.
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B.B. King
King of the Blues
I'd write and order me books. There was a guy called Nick Manoloff. Nick Manoloff had books. Guitar instruction books in the Sears Roebuck catalogue, the big one. I'd order those books and I studied them religiously, and that's how I learned to put my fingers on -- learned how to tune the guitar and learned my first bit of learning how to read music. I'm a blues singer, a blues musician, but I can read music -- not fast, but I do -- and I learned to even write a little bit. Now with my computer I write a little better. And, I believed in myself and that was the one thing I think that made me more confident in myself.
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