Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand.

If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?

Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they're hallucinating

Every time you make the hard, correct decision you become a bit more courageous, and every time you make the easy, wrong decision you become a bit more cowardly. If you are CEO, these choices will lead to a courageous or cowardly company.

In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.

To succeed at selling a losing product, you must develop seriously superior sales techniques. In addition, you have to be massively competitive and incredibly hungry to survive in that environment.

As companies move to web-based computing they get a lot more servers, which are difficult to manage and control. All kinds of problems can arise - security, quality and worms.