If your goal is anything but profitability - if it's to be big, or to grow fast, or to become a technology leader - you'll hit problems.
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Part of the challenge of being an entrepreneur, if you're going for a really huge opportunity, is trying to find problems that aren't quite on the radar yet and try to solve those.
My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.
We will naturally pursue our goals on the strength of our own resources, skills and enterprise. But, we know that we will be more successful when we do this in partnership with the world.
If you're going to be successful, you better have a goal, you better find really good people, better understand where all the money's coming from. And you better measure the living daylights out of it.
You know, you want everything you do, obviously, to be a success critically and commercially. But what you find out as you go along is that everything won't.
We want to be on the edge of technology all of the time. We think long-term.
I have always been driven by the ambition to solve every problem I face, whether as a scientist, engineer or entrepreneur.
The ultimate goal is to be an interesting, useful, wholesome person. If you're successful on top of that, then you're way ahead of everybody.
You can have a phenomenal technology with bad people; you're not gonna have much success. You can have mediocre technology with great people; they'll figure out a way to make a buck.
If you have the talent and if you have the ability, and you work for it, you can achieve your goals.