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.

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.

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.

The privilege is not writing a novel, it's to have someone read it. When you look at it that way, you realize the responsibility you have to put your very best on the page.

All life is a jest, Imhotep - and it is death who laughs last. Do you not hear it at every feast? Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow you die.

The daily activity that contributes most to happiness is having dinner with friends. The daily activity that detracts most from happiness is commuting. Eat more. Commute less.

Isn't Timbaland a make of shoe? It's a producer? I don't know who that is. Oh well.

The dress does not make the monk. [Fr., L'habit ne fait le moine.]

During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.

A neoconservative is a liberal who's been mugged by reality. A neoliberal is a liberal who's been mugged by reality but has refused to press charges.

The thing about inventing is you have to be both stubborn and flexible. The hard part is figuring out when to be which.

A blessing in disguise, is right before our eyes. But since it is in disguise, we don't know that it's there.

Too many companies waste time trying to eliminate their employees' weaknesses when, in fact, they should concentrate on developing their strengths.