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I would never diminish the quality of Hermes. Hermes can be an even rarer and greater quality business, if they ever wanted to work with us.

With tech companies, whoever’s the leader is always questioned, you know. They say, ‘Is this the end of them?’ And – there’s more – more times people think that’s the case than it really is the case.

Entrepreneurship is all about deferred gratification.

I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it’s time America was run like a business.

Mastering the paradox of star brands is very difficult and rare – fortunately.

One of the things it was obvious you could do with an online store is have a much more complete selection.

I have a company that is not Microsoft, called Corbis. Corbis is the operation that merged with Bettman Archives. It has nothing to do with Microsoft. It was intentionally done outside of Microsoft because Microsoft isn’t interested.

You want your customers to value your service.

Every company has to identify what I call its strategic resources, and make sure that it grabs as much of its strategic resources as possible.

Automotive franchise laws were put in place decades ago to prevent a manufacturer from unfairly opening stores in direct competition with an existing franchise dealer that had already invested time, money and effort to open and promote their business.