The Things That Caused Problems For Me

Because Software Is All About Scale. The Larger You Are, The More Profitable You Are. If We Sell Twice As Much As Software, It Doesn't Cost Us Twice As Much To Build That Software. So The More Customers You Have, The More Scale You Have. The Larger You Are, The More Profitable You Are.

I Think About The Business All The Time. Well I Shouldn't Say All The Time. I Don't Think About It When I Am Wakeboarding. But Even When I Am On Vacation, Or On My Boat; I Am On Email Everyday. I Am Always Prowling Around The Internet Looking At What Our Competitors Are Doing.

You Realize That Life Is Short And Fragile; And When You Are Facing Walls Of Water, You Understand Your Own Mortality Can Change And How Quickly Things Could Change.

Act Confident, Even When You're Not.

I Started Netsuite. Netsuite Was My Idea. I Called Up Evan Goldberg And Said, 'we're Going To Do Erp On The Internet, Software-as-a-service.' Six Months Later Marc Benioff, Finding Out What Netsuite Was Doing, And Kind Of Copied It.