QUOTES

When you start a company, you kind of have nothing. You have no right to exist. The reason that you are sometimes able to win anyway is if you really plant your flag in the ground, put a stake into what you think the future is, and you run like hell towards that.

I'm not good at remembering things, but I have remembered a lot from history. And it jolly well does repeat itself. So you can learn really interesting things from history.

[On not selling his business] If you lose your baby, you lose purpose, then you lose purpose in life.

Being mildly obsessive compulsive is actually a good thing.

If we keep doing what we were doing before, we're going to be in serious trouble. Because some new company's going to come along, and they're going to have all these new tools. They're not going to have this legacy of crap from the past, and they're just going to do it the new way.

I am interested in excellence, and I will go to almost any end that's not immoral or illegal to achieve it for myself and everyone around me.

The more it was turned down, the more encouraged I became.

Which problems am I passionate about solving? Which problems can I spend the next decade of my life fixing? Because if I'm not interested enough in it to spend a decade fixing it, it's probably not worth pursuing.

Every single time I had an idea... somebody told me it wouldn't work.

Our components are five days old and the competitor's components are 90 days old. Well, theirs cost a lot more than ours do. Now you've got this structural competitive advantage. You also have the freshest and the newest, and the best technology. You're not selling the 90-day-old fish or bananas. And then you've got this feedback loop because you're getting signal from the customers.