My half-baked reading of history is that we continue to go through these waves of entrepreneurial explosion followed by merger mania and consolidation. Out of that come big sluggish companies that eventually collapse under the weight of what they've created, and are killed off by the next wave of entrepreneurs.

It's not enough to be close to the customer. You've got to be glued to the customer.

Skill at creating, exploiting, and exiting crucial alliances beats ownership of fixed assets

The 'value added' for most any company, tiny or enormous, comes from the Quality of Experience provided.

Brand inside is more important than brand outside for sustained success.

He who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns!

Quality involves living the message of the possibility of perfection and infinite improvement, living it day in and day out, decade by decade.