Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate it.

Democracy tends to be a collaborative process, a committee, a consensus.

The key thing in any kind of guiding of the business is how do you create a strong organization that is kind of accelerating into the future. And when you're in trouble, the question is, what are the techniques that you can, you know, trim, refinance, sell, et cetera, in order to get this business back to that characteristic.

So usually you have to have product distribution as more fundamental than what the actual product is.

You remake yourself as you grow and as the world changes. Your identity doesn’t get found. It emerges.

The key thing for all businesses, and especially of course technology businesses or businesses that employ technology as a key kind of strategic advantage, is you always have to be investing in the future.

[Hillary Clinton] is also smart, she talks to people, she hears, and she says, "OK, I need to update, we need some much bigger changes."