Making a company fit to sell may be the only way to ensure you never need a buyer.

Britain is famous for being great at inventing and poor at commercializing.

Once you have power, you are inevitably surrounded by people who have their own agendas and will tell you whatever advances them.

Building businesses takes tremendous stamina, and success isn't achieved without it.

For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.

The biggest catastrophes that we've witnessed rarely come from information that is secret or hidden. It comes from information that is freely available and out there, but that we are willfully blind to.

On overnight flights, I have trained myself to get to sleep almost instantly after takeoff. I always listen to the same audiobook on my iPod so my brain knows, regardless of time zone, that that voice means it's time for bed.