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.
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.
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.
If everybody is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going exactly in the opposite direction.
An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.
The Department of Energy made an investment that failed, and it got raked over the coals for that failed investment. This is ridiculous. The fact of the matter is, the government should be making a lot of risky investments, the majority of which are ...
When you get older, your health becomes important to you, things start breaking down, you've always got a different ache or pain.
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.
We learned the value of research in World War II.
I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.
In the early days of aviation, there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate.
