I Was Never Given This Advice, People

I Think Most Of [people] Are Not Very Well Educated Themselves To Understand The Winston Churchill Line - Democracy Is The Worst Of All Governments Until You Consider All The Other Ones.

Managing Risk Is A Key Variable, Frankly, All Aspects Of Life, Business Is Just One Of Them, And One Of The Things That Most People Do In Terms Of Managing Risk, That's Actually Bad Thinking, Is They Think They Can Manage Risk To Zero. Everything Has Some Risk To It. You Know, You Drive Your Car Down The Street, A Drunk Driver May Hit You. So What You're Doing Is You're Actually Trying To Get To An Acceptable Level Of Risk.

When You Have An Idea, A Classic Entrepreneurial Impulse Is To Hold The Idea Close To You And Not Tell People And That's Almost Always A Mistake.

The Key Thing For All Businesses, And Especially Of Course Technology Businesses Or Businesses That Employ Technology As A Key Kind Of Strategic Advantage, Is You Always Have To Be Investing In The Future.

If You Are Not Embarrassed By The First Version Of Your Product, You've Launched Too Late.