In some ways, getting away from the headquarters and having a little time to reflect allows you to find errors in your strategy. You get to rethink things. Often, that helps me correct a mistake that I made or someone else is about to make.

You have to believe in what you do in order to get what you want.

I love sailing. I like it more when I am winning.

I enjoy the competition and the process of learning as we compete. The whole thing is just fascinating. I don't know what I'll do when I retire. When I go sailing, I look around ... anyone want to race? I just love competing as opposed to just going out and watching the sunset.

I wish HP nothing but the best. I think HP is an icon. Those of us who had their careers in the Valley think of Dave Packard and Bill Hewlett as role models. We would love to be half as good as they were.

The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion.

If you do everything that everyone else does in business, you're going to lose. The only way to really be ahead, is to 'be different'.