The worse the news, the more effort should go into communicating it.

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

Assume any career move you make won't go smoothly. They won't. But don't look back.

Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.

I think Amazon is the preeminent pioneer in building a new way of doing commerce: personalized, database-driven commerce, where the big value is not in the purchase fulfillment, but in knowing as much about a customer base of ten or twenty million people as a corner store used to know about a customer base of a few hundred. In today's mass-merchandising world, that's largely gone; Amazon is trying to use computer technology to re-establish it.

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.

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.