Doing deals doesn't yield the deep rewards that come from building up people.

Innovation simply isn't as unpredictable as many people think. There isn't a cookbook yet, but we're getting there.

Steve Jobs and Apple taught us that profit is not the ultimate goal, but rather a consequence of something greater.

Justification for infidelity and dishonesty in all their manifestations lies in the marginal cost economics of “just this once.

To prop up the stock price, managers have to turn down the screws on everybody. That forces them to cancel all the projects that would lead to future growth in order to drop money to the bottom line. This is HP's dilemma today. Once a company's growth has stopped, the game as we have known it is over. It's a scary thing.

The outsourcing gurus have been driving the theory, and they are saying everybody ought always to do this. But it is really contingent on where you are on the spectrum from "not good enough" to "more than good enough," relative to each tier of the market.

We don't hire ministers or priests to teach and care for us. This forces us to teach and care for each other - and in my view, this is the core of Christian living as Christ taught it.