In the developed world, technological progress means that you can have a situation where there's growth, where there's a way in which everybody can be better off over time.

The most successful businesses have an idea for the future that's very different from the present.

Most people are average. Founders are not. Founders' traits seem to have an inverse normal distribution to them.

The most fundamental reason that even businesspeople underestimate the importance of sales is the systematic effort to hide it at every level of every field in a world secretly driven by it.

Luck is like an atheistic word for God.

The most contrarian thing of all is not to oppose the crowd but to think for yourself.

I do think Tim Cook is doing a very good job, I think he has almost impossibly big shoes to fill with Steve Jobs' departure. And so, that's the context always someone has to put things in. But, I do think that for the most part that Apple is at a point where it's much more focused on scale than on doing new things.