Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.

You have to understand what it is that you are better at than anybody else and mercilessly focus your efforts on it.

I believe in the value of paranoia. Business success contains the seeds of its own destruction. The more successful you are, the more people want a chunk of your business and then another chunk and then another until there is nothing left.

The sad news is, nobody owes you a career. Your career is literally your business. You own it as a sole proprietor. You have one employee: yourself. You need to accept ownership of your career, your skills and the timing of your moves.

A career in journalism suddenly lost its appeal.

Make mistakes faster.

By the late '90s, those who were paying attention perceived the Internet as a 20-foot tidal wave coming, and we are all in kayaks.