I remember going into Steve's [Jobs] house, and he had almost no furniture in it. He just had a picture of Einstein, whom he admired greatly, and he had a Tiffany lamp and a chair and a bed. He just didn't believe in having lots of things around, but he was incredibly careful in what he selected.

Innovation, I believe, is the only way that America will regain the initiative in a global dynamic economy.

As a brand marketer, I'm a big believer in 'branding the customer experience,' not just selling the service.

Innovation has never come through bureaucracy and hierarchy. It's always come from individuals.

The Japanese always started with the market share of components first. So one would dominate, let's say, sensors, and someone else would dominate memory, and someone else hard drives and things of that sort.

The new leaders face new tests such as how to lead in this idea-intensive, interdependent network environment

It's an amazing time to be an entrepreneur because not only is the stuff getting more capable and powerful, but it's becoming more reliable and the costs are coming down dramatically. So you can go out as an entrepreneur and start a company on a credit card and go to AWS and a few other services and be pretty virtual and, who knows, you may be the next Steve Jobs.