Wisdom From The Wise...

You have to be able to make risky assumptions to undertake a new venture.

In 3 years, every product my company makes will be obsolete. The question is whether we will make them obsolete or somebody else will.

One day an eager upstart will put Microsoft out of business.

If you decline to take risks early, you will decline in the market later. If you bet big, though, only a few of those risks have to succeed to provide for your future.

If you dont believe that all the employees have the potential to contribute to your company's success, all the technology in the world wont empower them. Once you assume that every employee should be a knowledge worker, technology will help every employee to put his full abilities to work on company's behalf.

"The prediction i can make with the highest confidence is that the most amazing inventions will be those that we are today not wise enough to foresee."
-Carl Sagan (Astronomer).