How exciting is it to come to work if the best you can do is trounce some other company that does roughly the same thing?

If we are not trusted, we have no business.

You never lose a dream, it just incubates as a hobby.

If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.

Lots of companies don’t succeed over time. What do they fundamentally do wrong? They usually miss the future. I try to focus on that: What is the future really going to be? And how do we create it? And how do we power our organization to really focus on that and really drive it at a high rate? When I was working on Android, I felt guilty. It wasn’t what we were working on, it was a start-up, and I felt guilty. That was stupid! It was the future.

How exciting is it to come to work if the best you can do is trounce some other company that does roughly the same thing?

If you look at the people who have high impact, they have pretty general knowledge. They don't have a really narrowly focused education.