How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things but how well we are understood.

Only the paranoid survive.

Long distances used to be a moat that both insulated and isolated people from workers on the other side of the world. But every day, technology narrows that moat inch by inch. Every person in the world is on the verge of becoming both a coworker and a competitor to every one of us ... Technological change is going to reach out and sooner or later change something fundamental in your business world.

Not all problems have a technological answer, but when they do, that is the more lasting solution.

Technology happens, it's not good, it's not bad. Is steel good or bad?

There are two options: adapt or die.

You need just the right amount of ambition . . . If you have too little ambition, you don't push or work hard. If you have too much ambition, you put yourself ahead of others, elbow them out of your way.