As an investor in small companies, I don't care how rich Microsoft is. I care about what my opportunities are.

And the Russians certainly don't have it. If a woman shows up in a fur coat, I just assume she's a crook. And that's me, the nice American. The assumption that you can't make money honestly is a killer.

I believe in markets doing what they do well, which is to develop technology, and letting citizens do what they ideally do well, which is to set policy.

As an investor in small companies, I don't care how rich Microsoft is. I care about what my opportunities are.

The best investor is your customer.

If the past decade was the decade of searching and finding and looking for stuff, this coming decade is going to be the decade of filtering and going to your friends for recommendations.

Listening to other companies' customers is the best way to gain market share, while listening to the visionaries is the best way to create new markets.