I'm right, and everyone else is wrong.

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'.

Act confident, even when you're not.

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.

Once open source gets good enough, competing with it would be insane.

We will still be enormously profitable and by far the most profitable enterprise software company.

Those that believe this is merely a downturn are mad. Our industry is going to mature and as something matures, the rate of innovation does slow.