I took a long view in order to not destroy the core Galvin-defined principles imbued in Motorola, such as constant respect for people, its instincts for breakthrough innovation, and continuous renewal in thinking and process rigor.

What most people don't understand about failure in innovation is that it's an investment. It's actually an investment in experience.

The Galvins like to think about certain things that most people think are impossible, and then we like to engage a process to try to make them possible.

We Galvins define leadership as 'taking people elsewhere.'

I took a long view in order to not destroy the core Galvin-defined principles imbued in Motorola, such as constant respect for people, its instincts for breakthrough innovation, and continuous renewal in thinking and process rigor.

If you want to be an innovator, you have to take risks. And sometimes things work and sometimes they don't work.

You have to give credit where credit's due. Steve [Jobs] has been probably the single hardware/software forward-looking thinker and executor in our lifetime as an individual. He's quite a brilliant innovator.