Most companies don't die because they are wrong; they die because they don't commit themselves. They fritter away their momentum and their valuable resources while attempting to make a decision. The greatest danger is standing still.

How can you motivate yourself to continue to follow a leader when he appears to be going around in circles?

Growth is kinda built into everyone's genes. It's built into management's genes, the salesman's genes, the investors' desires. People expect companies to grow.

Whatever success we have had in maintaining our culture has been instrumental in Intel's success in surviving strategic inflection points.

With all due respect to Microsoft and Intel, there is no substitute for being in the right place at the right time.

Only the paranoid survive.

The new environment dictates two rules: first, everything happens faster; second, anything that can be done will be done, if not by you, then by someone else, somewhere.