Stan Shih Quotes

It's better to be the head of a chicken than the tail of a cow.

You have to always look ahead, always be positive. It's your choice, your destiny. You have to enjoy life.

Before you can create a strategy, you need a vision of the company. Before you set that vision for the future, you have to understand your current position in the market as well as your limitations.

People always want to have ownership and decision-making and autonomy.

To me, strategy means trying to overcome your limitations and your weak points. To do that, I try to enhance and leverage my strong points.

When you do business, you have to depend on other countries. This is the global economy.

I think from the business point of view, Taiwan and China tied together brings mutual benefit. And we don't see any reason for stopping that progress, unless they have a political reason.

In China, if they open the markets, it will force local companies to compete with international players, and the local companies will benefit in the long run.

Taiwan's development in the past 20 years in high tech is almost 100 percent related to Silicon Valley.