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Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.
Develop the business around the people; build it, don't buy it; and, then, be the best.
Speech to the Institute of Directors, London. 'Growing Bigger While Still Staying Small' (1993)
In the past, business was the employer of all those who wanted to work. In the future, there will be lots of customers, but not lots of jobs.
The Empty Raincoat. Making Sense of the Future (1994)
I think there's going to be a lot of losers. There's no question that if you took a snapshot of the economy today and a snapshot of the economy five years from now, the lineup of participants are going to be very different. But just the same way as...the PC industry swept in and the semiconductor industry swept in, if I mention the starters, a lot of people would say 'Who?' A lot of the high fliers today are going to be 'Who?'
Speech, Los Angeles Times 3rd Annual Investment Strategies Conference, Los Angeles, California (1999)
Having a large business is not against the law. Achieving it in violation of fairly specifically prescribed codes of behavior is. So we don't worry about the grand concept of it. We don't worry about being big, we worry about not being big enough. But we are worried about playing by the rules�not just the letter of the law, but the spirit of the law.
Interview, Upside Magazine (1997)
The speed of the Internet provides a fundamentally different perspective on how business relationships occur...The approach relies on collaboration, not on competition... on sharing information, and understanding what we as businesses do best.
Speech to the Executives' Club of Chicago. 'NetSpeed: The Supercharged Effect of the Internet' (1998)
The key to using the Internet to extend and build relationships is to view ownership of information differently � you need to bring customers inside your business to create information partnerships... relationships become the differentiator, more than products or services. Businesses become intertwined.
Speech (1999)
I believe that you have to understand the economics of a business before you have a strategy, and you have to understand your strategy before you have a structure. If you get these in the wrong order, you will probably fail.
Speech to the Society of American Business Editors and Writers Tfechnology Conference, Dallas. 'Maximum Speed: Lessons Learned from Managing Hypergrowth' (1998)
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
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On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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