People still cling to this belief that innovation is just random and unpredictable. But if you look closely, there are some real patterns. The companies that recognize and take advantage of those patterns have the real opportunity to create competitive advantage.

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

Think about the metric by which your life will be judged, and make a resolution to live every day so that in the end, your life will be judged a success.

At the beginning of almost every industry, the available products and services are so expensive to own and complicated to use that only people with a lot of money and a lot of skill have access to them. A disruptive technology is an innovation that simplifies the product and makes it so affordable that a whole new population of people can now have one and use it at the beginning for simple applications, and then it improves to the point that it makes the old technology obsolete.

When product performance outstrips the ability of customers to use that performance in an industry, the competitive game changes. Under those circumstances you have to decouple components businesses from assembly businesses.

You may hate gravity, but gravity doesn't care.

I have been blessed to see visions of eternity; and events in my future that have been important for me to foresee, have been revealed to me.