Swipe from the best, then adapt.

Only pissed-off people change the world.

Ultimately, I think that the growth and sustainability of the e-book movement depends on authors and end-users (readers).

But there's no substitute for getting smarter faster. And the way you get smarter is to screw around vigorously. Try stuff. See what works. See what fails miserably. Learn. Rinse. Repeat.

Hire disrespectful people.

One simply cannot pay tribute to Stephen Covey without saying at the outset that he was a lovely human being.

There's nobody in the world that wouldn't change places with the Americans. The economy is phenomenally large, the entrepreneurial class is very alive and very well, the universities, despite budget problems, still turn out something like 90 percent of the refereed academic and technical articles in the world. There's a lot on everybody's agenda.