Robert Lamb Quotes on Opportunity (2 Quotes)

You have a personality in Case that is much more of visionary and a much more tight-fisted state of mind than Jerry Levin, ... Then you have a Jerry Levin who has come up through Time Inc., where they are about a rigid as you can get, and doesn't fool anybody. He is a button-down, narrow kind of guy who is not able to move rapidly. Unless Case can make him sort of understand the need for speed, the need to act on opportunities that he does not yet understand, he is going to be marginalized.

The deal was struck between the two CEOs and in both cases it was sort of a marriage of necessity. But there is no conviction in my soul that Levin understands the Internet age, and unless Case is given the collaboration from Levin to lead into the future, it could drag down the opportunities into the future.