Where visionaries can be good at persuasion, CEOs are good at wielding authority. Visionaries transcend organizations, resources, and current realities, while CEOs master them.

Invention is a flower, innovation is a weed.

My advice is never let a publicist call you a 'visionary.' I've hung out with the visionaries at the famed Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. I've been a successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur. I wouldn't touch 'visionary' with a 10-foot pole.

I saw that there are people who will connive against innovation. They're hostile to it. And that has shaped my behavior ever since.

In seven to ten years video traffic on the Internet will exceed data and voice traffic combined.

If you cannot be on the project each day to check on things, then you should not try and be your own contractor.

Where visionaries can be good at persuasion, CEOs are good at wielding authority. Visionaries transcend organizations, resources, and current realities, while CEOs master them.