Quotes from James Daly

People say we were an overnight success. It took us a year to be an overnight success.

You lie awake at 3 in the morning thinking of story ideas. You're online at 8 a.m. on a Sunday or midnight on a Wednesday. It's a job that you never push aside.

You know, technology CEOs like to think of themselves as rock 'n roll stars.

You can't suppress creativity, you can't suppress innovation.

Certainly there are bubble-like valuations of certain companies, but I don't think anyone out there believes that we're going to go back to doing business the way we used to do business.

I think what we should have done is integrate the web site with the magazine much earlier in the process.

You lie awake at 3 in the morning thinking of story ideas. You're online at 8 a.m. on a Sunday or midnight on a Wednesday. It's a job that you never push aside.

You have to remember a lot of business is very cyclical.

There was never any danger of Business 2.0 ever going under.

I got to sit down with people who I admired, and have conversations with some of the greatest thinkers and artists and performers. It's a huge privilege for me to be a journalist.

It's very rare that publications double their frequency.

See, what we were going to do was say, the Internet is this great business strategy tool.

You have to remember when we were going once a month, we were putting out issues that were 480 pages, and people were complaining that these were too big, I can't get through a 480 page magazine every month.

The story of the Internet is this incredibly strong, exciting change.

There certainly was a lot of potential in the air for doing a magazine which focused on the way business, in particular, was being transformed by the Internet.

I think up until that time a lot of focus on Internet coverage was either sort of the bits and bytes aspect of it, sort of the high-tech aspect of it, and the sociological aspect of it, which is how it was transforming culture.

I'm a history buff, and right now we're sitting on one of the most dramatic historical shifts that this planet has ever seen and we have a front row seat for it.

And I love writing. I've always loved writing.

I think Fast Company has a tremendously smart focus and execution.

The hardest part of it was really being away from my family - I have two small children. Last year I took over 20 business trips, so being away from them was hard.

People who say that the Internet is the bubble are incredibly misguided.

I still believe that the mission of Business 2.0 is very strong, very fundamental, and we're really at the beginning of where they're going to take us.

The best rock musicians are the most exciting people in the world.

Rock stars are incredibly energizing to me.