“If we think long term, we can accomplish things that we couldn’t otherwise accomplish.”

The best customer service is if the customer doesn’t need to call you, doesn’t need to talk to you. It just works.

The three most important things in retail are location, location, location. The three most important things for our consumer business are technology, technology, technology.

Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

We change our tools and then our tools change us.

If you don’t understand the details of your business you are going to fail.

The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It’s the thing that people create.

The Net is pretty cool, but the physical world is the best medium ever.

People who are right most of the time are people who change their minds often.

People don’t want gadgets, they want services.

A company shouldn’t get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn’t last.

I try to spend my time on areas that I think are important for the future, and where I think I can add value.

In the end, we are our choices.

I don’t buy stocks, I make stocks.

Where you are going to spend your time and your energy is one of the most important decisions you get to make in life.

If your customer base is aging with you, then eventually you are going to become obsolete or irrelevant. You need to be constantly figuring out who are your new customers and what are you doing to stay forever young.

Entrepreneurs must be willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time.