When you live your life in different ways, it makes people around you become uncomfortable. So deal with it. They don't know what you are going to do.

Taking care of your employees is extremely important, and very, very visible.

When you're the first person whose beliefs are different from what everyone else believes, you're basically saying, "I'm right, and everyone else is wrong." That's a very unpleasant position to be in. It's at once exhilarating and at the same time an invitation to be attacked.

Great achievers are driven, not so much by the pursuit of success, but by the fear of failure.

I think you might see us growing much deeper into banking. You might see us acquiring companies in the banking area. You might see us acquiring companies in the retail area. I think you might see us acquiring companies in the telecommunications. I think you will see us getting stronger in business intelligence.

All you can do is all you can do.

We have been doing things that are contrary; the things that people tell us won't work from the beginning. In fact, the only way to get ahead is to find errors in conventional wisdom.