Every Generation Thinks That They Invented Sex.

Just As We Could Have Rode Into The Sunset, Along Came The Internet, And It Tripled The Significance Of The Pc.

If The Brutal Facts Are Not Faced By Leaders, The Brutal Reality Sets In.

I Think Amazon Is The Preeminent Pioneer In Building A New Way Of Doing Commerce: Personalized, Database-driven Commerce, Where The Big Value Is Not In The Purchase Fulfillment, But In Knowing As Much About A Customer Base Of Ten Or Twenty Million People As A Corner Store Used To Know About A Customer Base Of A Few Hundred. In Today's Mass-merchandising World, That's Largely Gone; Amazon Is Trying To Use Computer Technology To Re-establish It.

The New Environment Dictates Two Rules: First, Everything Happens Faster; Second, Anything That Can Be Done Will Be Done, If Not By You, Then By Someone Else, Somewhere.

I Believe In The Value Of Paranoia. Business Success Contains The Seeds Of Its Own Destruction. The More Successful You Are, The More People Want A Chunk Of Your Business And Then Another Chunk And Then Another Until There Is Nothing Left.