What if the slowdown in merger activity isn't cyclical, but secular? What if corporations have learned the lessons of so many companies before them that the odds of a successful merger are no better...

I think Microsoft will have to change. I think that the business of Microsoft, the company of Microsoft, is going to continue to succeed. But I think the business model of Microsoft is going to have...

Amazon's identity and goals are never clear and always fluid, which makes the company destabilizing and intimidating.

Sometimes all the 'marketing' insight in the world can't move a client, but the creation of a truly great brand name can become a billion-dollar idea!

Growth hackers don't tolerate waste.

For many startups, ideating is the fun part: coming up with ingenious schemes to grab eyeballs and start conversations. But before you dive into that stage, take a step back and define your goals.

If companies don't think systemically enough - if they try to capture too much of the value - eventually, innovation moves somewhere else.

Just as predatory animals follow a similar general design and behave in similar ways, so organizations, especially those in competition with one another, must follow certain design principles if they...

In a competitive industry, only paranoid incumbents - those constantly striving for betterment - have any hope of surviving.

The copycats are interesting because some of them branded themselves as 'WeWork of China,' which helped establish us before we were there.

Major markets are a key factor in advertising and budgeting decisions.

People ask us a lot about the notion of spinning AWS off. We have no plans to do so. I will never say never, but there's no compelling reason. Amazon has been so generous and gracious in aggressively...

Look at Microsoft, Google, and Facebook. They have all entered many sectors, and actually, in many of those sectors, they weren't as early as Tencent.

A great ad campaign will make a bad product fail faster. It will get more people to know it's bad.

Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals.

When I started at Bloomingdale's as a buyer, Alexander's was a discounter across the street, and every time Alexander's had something that we had at Bloomingdale's, we'd have to meet price. I didn't...

The U.S. is an interesting territory for Barcelona. It's very important for our global growth plans.

If you change the rules of the market, you can be more successful than your competitors.

If every effect of any new products or methods were required to be known before they could be produced and marketed, they would not be true innovations - and thus not represent new knowledge of what...

In the beginning, we might have been focused on totally just music and being famous, just wanting to have fame and make hot music, but as we got older, we had to understand that this is a business and...

Customers are very demanding and well informed.

Whether in services or in manufacturing, the trick is to stay ahead of the curve. I believe we should not wait to be disrupted - we should become disruptors ourselves.

Nokia and Research in Motion needed a modern operating system. They could have bought Palm or Android before Google did, but they didn't. Today, it's probably too late, and at the time they would have...

I'm not chasing mail volume down because I'm going where we see growth. That's what we need to do.

There are a lot of threats out there. Amazon can enter the travel market. Google could enter the accommodation space. But that is not something that we actively focus on.

You do sequels because they are tent poles. They open well, and they hold the tent up. But in between, you make a movie you respect.

One of the metaphors that I use for start-ups is, you throw yourself off a cliff and assemble your airplane on the way down. If you don't solve the right problem at the right time, that's the end....

You never see Coke and Pepsi doing attacks to each other. It would depress the product category of soft drinks.

A lot of the car companies are understandably looking at the terrific job that Toyota has done by partnering with NASCAR and the success and all the things that come along with that. They've been an...

I came back to Philips and quickly realised that the TV business had a major performance issue and some structural challenges. Rather than try to tweak it and sit things out, we said we had to go for...