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I've Concluded That The Metric By Which God Will Assess My Life Isn't Dollars, But The Individual People Whose Lives I've Touched. I Think That's The Way It Will Work For Us All. Don't Worry About The Level Of Individual Prominence You Have Achieved; Worry About The Individuals You Have Helped Become Better People.

It's Like In Biological Evolution: The Population Will Evolve, Even Though Individuals Can't. The Same Thing Happens In The Corporate World: The Population Of Business Units Within Corporations Evolves, Even Though Individual Business Units Can't. That's Because The Capabilities Of Business Units Reside In Their Processes And Their Values, And By Their Very Nature, Processes And Values Are Inflexible And Meant Not To Change.

The Innovations Are Far More Important Because The Technology Itself Has Now Way To Impact The World For Good Until It's Embedded In The Business Model. Innovation It's The Combination Of The Simplifying Technology And The Business Model.

Doing Deals Doesn't Yield The Deep Rewards That Come From Building Up People.

Quite Often Startups Were First Out Of The Gate With A Sustaining Technology. But Somehow The Leaders Got The Technology And Stayed Atop Their Industries. Sometimes They Acquired The Startup; Sometimes They Just Developed The Technology As A Follower And Used Their Muscle And Mass To Win. But They Always Won.