E-Commerce is happening the way all the hype said it would. Internet deployment is happening. Broadband is happening. Everything we ever said about the Internet is happening. And it is very, very early. We can't even glimpse it's potential in changing the way people work and live.

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.

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.

Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them.

The most important role of managers is to create environment in which people are passionately dedicated to winning in marketplace.

There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment - and you start to decline.