Luke Fretwell » Business http://lukefretwell.com Thu, 17 May 2012 17:00:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 ‘I’m a long term kind of person.’ http://lukefretwell.com/im-a-long-term-kind-of-person/ http://lukefretwell.com/im-a-long-term-kind-of-person/#comments Thu, 17 May 2012 17:00:15 +0000 Luke Fretwell http://lukefretwell.com/?p=2544 Fast Company has a great audio excerpt from a Steve Jobs interview where he discusses Pixar and running a business like a marathon.

Excerpt:

“My training has been in doing things that take a long time … I’m a long term kind of person. I have been trained to think in units of time that are measured in several years, because what I’ve chosen to do with my life. Even a small thing takes a few years. To do anything of magnitude takes at least five, more likely seven or eight. So, rightfully or wrongfully, that’s how I think.”

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Quotable:

“What you find is, especially with creative people, designers, programmers, writers, engineers, thinkers, that people really need long stretches of uninterrupted time to get something done. You cannot ask somebody to be creative in 15 minutes and really think about a problem. You might have a quick idea, but to be in deep thought about a problem and really consider a problem carefully, you need long uninterrupted time.”

]]> http://lukefretwell.com/how-to-make-work-work/feed/ 0 Lemonade http://lukefretwell.com/lemonade/ http://lukefretwell.com/lemonade/#comments Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:22:22 +0000 Luke Fretwell http://lukefretwell.com/?p=504 Inspiring movie about how people turn getting laid off (lemons) into businesses of passion (lemonade).

Favorite quote:

Sometimes there’s things you love to do that you forget about, so put your energy in the things you love. Put all the energy you can into those things and see what happens.

]]> http://lukefretwell.com/lemonade/feed/ 0 ‘The Story of Stuff’ http://lukefretwell.com/the-story-of-stuff/ http://lukefretwell.com/the-story-of-stuff/#comments Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:02:59 +0000 Luke Fretwell http://lukefretwell.com/?p=188 I got a “C” in my globalization class in college. It wasn’t that I didn’t care about the subject matter. It was my last class, and I was ready to just be finished. “The Story of Stuff” is an creative look at the economics of manufacturing, consumption, globalization and sustainability as an alternative.

Watch the full series. It’ll help you get that “A” in living a greener lifestyle and making the world a better place to live.

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