We cannot take for granted that the future will be better, and that means we need to work to create it today.

Great tech opportunities happen only once.

When you already have $150 billion a year in revenues from the iPhone, it's very hard to come up with any new vertical that will sort of move the dial. And there's this sort of weird effect where the larger a company gets, the harder it is to come up with any new product that really moves the dial.

We cannot take for granted that the future will be better, and that means we need to work to create it today.

I think markets are often not thinking on a long-time horizon, I think that our government structurally is doing even less so. When we have a government where we have people who are up for election at most once every six years for a U.S. senator, that's a time horizon that is much shorter than in a market that a company is looking at 10, 15, 20 years which is a time horizon over which a stock price is typically valued.

Long-term planning is often undervalued by our indefinite short-term world.

Monopoly is the condition of every successful business.