A great company will have many once-in-a-liftetime opportunities.

Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.

Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.

The people who don't have a great life are the ones who settle for a good one.

Great companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change.

Comparison, a great teacher once told me, is the cardinal sin of modern life. It traps us in a game that we can't win. Once we define ourselves in terms of others, we lose the freedom to shape our own lives.

The inner experience of fallure is totally different than failure. Going to fallure means 100% commitment - you leave nothing in reserve, no mental or physical resource untapped, you never give yourself a psychological out. Failure means making a decision to let go, to be less than 100% committed, when confronted by fear, pain and uncertainty.