business strategy

“The failure mode I see probably more than anything else is Somebody who is what I think of as not strategic, right? Which is that they believe that they need to always keep all their options open, not make big choices and sort of see what evolves and then just…”

“So stick to your knitting, do what you can do, and do more of it, and try and grow it. Don't try and do everything. So many people fail by getting successful in one, and then think they can do everything.”

“So my philosophy was Zoom in before you zoom out. So in everything I've done, I always went deep into whatever the business was, the company was, tried to understand things from the ground level. Then I'd zoom out and say, what's missing here?”

“You can't only think about the long-term. If you only think about the long-term, you probably won't get out of the short-term, because you're going to miss the situations of today, the short-term sort of dynamics.”