Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

“The person who is the star of previous era is often the last one to adapt to change, the last one to yield to logic of a strategic inflection point and tends to fall harder than most.”

“if you're wrong, you will die. But most companies don't die because they are wrong; most die because they don't commit themselves. They fritter away their valuable resources while attempting to make a decision. The greatest danger is in Standing still”

“Altogether too often, people substitute opinions for facts and emotions for analysis.”

“How can you motivate yourself to continue to follow a leader when he appears to be going around in circles?”

“Remember too that your time is your one finite resource, and when you say “yes” to one thing you are inevitably saying “no” to another.”

“In Technology, whatever can be done will be done”

“People in the trenches are usually in touch with impending changes early”

“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”