We're losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of it, as opposed to the business potential.
I just want to be master of my own time. It is ironic that someone in the watch business should not be in control of his time.
So much of life is a negotiation - so even if you're not in business, you have opportunities to practice all around you.
I certainly think you could look at the business side of how WWE was run, which was as a conservative company with little debt and strong cash balance.
I still work hard to know my business. I'm continuously looking for ways to improve all my companies, and I'm always selling. Always.
But we have to ask ourselves, what's the purpose of the stock market? It's supposed to be a source of capital for growing business. It's lost that purpose.
You've got to be very cognizant of the correlation between social media links and business because they don't always correlate as highly as people would like.
If you're soft and fuzzy, like our little characters, you become the skinny kid on the beach, and people in this business don't mind kicking sand in your face.
I was actually the manager of the games department of an amusement park when I was at college, so I understood the coin-op side of the games business very well.
Did you know that Kodak actually invented the digital camera that ultimately put it out of business? Kodak had the patents and a head start, but ignored all that.
People need to understand how exponential technologies are impacting the business landscape. They need to do some future-casting and look at how industries are evolving and being transformed.
When I talk about taking bold actions in the world, few things are bolder than creating the 'Huffington Post' from scratch and reinventing the newspaper business.
In Hong Kong, the property business has always been very competitive, so we have to think of ways to get an edge over our competitors.
We are not a trading company. We are a midstream asset company: pipe, storage and terminals. It's an unsexy, dirty business. It's not rocket science.
It's a libel to say that I use my newspapers to support my other business interests. The fact is, I haven't got any other business interests.
But Apple really beats to a different drummer. I used to say that Apple should be the Sony of this business, but in reality, I think Apple should be the Apple of this business.
There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.
I came from the music business, which reputedly has the biggest egos, but I really think the airline world caps it.
If you had the most prestige and you were the network that everybody turned to in times of a crisis, that that was the most important position, in the news business, to hold.
The biggest part of my job now is to quickly develop successors, and around the world I am working to develop new business leaders in the company.
