I Was Not An Outstanding Student. I

Having A Great Idea Is Important. But Having A Great Team Is Also Important.

I Think The More You Have A Generalist Perspective, I Think Sometimes The More You Can Kind Of See Through The Forest And The Trees. And When It Gets A Little Bit Cloudy, You Know, Have Some Sense Of, "well, Maybe This Might Happen Or Maybe That Might Happen." So I Really Am A Big Believer In Liberal Arts Education. I Think It's Better - Particularly In These Kind Of Uncertain Times - To Know A Little Bit About A Lot Of Things As Opposed To Being Expert In One Thing.

The Only Way To Continue To Have A Robust Economy Is To Out-innovate Other Nations.

Disruption Is About Risk-taking. But Then You Become A Fortune 500 Company, Which Is About Risk Mitigation

When I Was Trying To Popularize The Concept Of The Internet - Ten Or 15 Years Ago - I Came Up With This Concept Of "the 5 Cs." Services Needed To Have Content, Context, Community, Commerce, And Connectivity. After That, When I Was Trying To Think Of What The Key Management Principles Were To Build Into The Culture, I Started Talking About The Ps. The P's Were Things Like Passion, Perseverance, Perspective And People. I Think The People Aspect Is Really The Most Important One.