I've had a wonderful life. What people are going to write about me 10 years after I'm dead - who cares?

I really don't have much respect for the people who live their lives motivated by an exit strategy existing, being performed. There was no option that we were trained in that says, 'If it gets too hard, get up and leave.'

When a change in how some element of one's business is conducted becomes an order of magnitude larger than what that business is accustomed to, then all bets are off.

We are now living on Internet time. It's a new territory, and the cyber equivalent of the Oklahoma land rush is on.

I wasn’t cut out to be an opera singer, but it was a nice fantasy for a teenager growing up in Hungary during the Stalinist era.

If the world operates as one big market, every employee will compete with every person anywhere in the world who is capable of doing the same job. There are lots of them and many of them are hungry.

Investment decisions and personal decisions don’t wait for the picture to be clarified.

Competition is warfare. Mostly it is played by prescribed rules – there is a sort of Geneva Convention for competition – but it’s thorough and often brutal.

Whatever success we have had in maintaining our culture has been instrumental in Intel’s success in surviving strategic inflection points.

Assume any career move you make won’t go smoothly. They won’t. But don’t look back.