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I feel that the best companies are started not because the founder wanted a company but because the founder wanted to change the world... If you decide you want to found a company, you maybe start to develop your first idea. And hire lots of workers.

Successful companies obviously have people with ideas and energy.

An illustration I use to get people to understand it is this: I'll ask major corporate audiences: Why don't you just take all your traditional beliefs about organizations, and apply them to the neurons in your brain?

Collective management will build companies - not top-down decision-making.

In the larger companies, you have this tendency to get top-down direction.

The model a lot of companies use is a very pyramidal model which sort of designates that all creativity, all wisdom flows from the top. We think that's the absolute wrong model.

Building a company isn't that different from climbing a big mountain. You need people helping you traverse treacherous paths and to lift you up when you fall.

Companies that have been built and operated for a long time are the most successful companies.

You know, a lot of people are just interested in, in building a company so they can make money and get out.