I travel all the time.

Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.

Better to fail at doing the right thing than to succeed at doing the wrong thing.

If you truly don't have competition, then zoom out until you can define some. Competition can be as simple as the reliance on the status quo, Microsoft (since at some point Microsoft will compete with everyone for everything), or researchers in universities. Pick something, because saying you have no competition at all is a nonstarter.

Coming from the U.S., you tend to look at one homogeneous market with 350 million people. But in Europe, every country has its own customs and laws.

The companies that are successful, they start out to make meaning, not to make money.

My real mantra for my life is "empower others".