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How Well We Communicate Is Determined Not By How Well We Say Things But How Well We Are Understood.

I Think Amazon Is The Preeminent Pioneer In Building A New Way Of Doing Commerce: Personalized, Database-driven Commerce, Where The Big Value Is Not In The Purchase Fulfillment, But In Knowing As Much About A Customer Base Of Ten Or Twenty Million People As A Corner Store Used To Know About A Customer Base Of A Few Hundred. In Today's Mass-merchandising World, That's Largely Gone; Amazon Is Trying To Use Computer Technology To Re-establish It.

E-commerce Is Happening The Way All The Hype Said It Would. Internet Deployment Is Happening. Broadband Is Happening. Everything We Ever Said About The Internet Is Happening. And It Is Very, Very Early. We Can't Even Glimpse It's Potential In Changing The Way People Work And Live.

I Believe In The Value Of Paranoia. Business Success Contains The Seeds Of Its Own Destruction. The More Successful You Are, The More People Want A Chunk Of Your Business And Then Another Chunk And Then Another Until There Is Nothing Left.

So Give Me A Turbulent World As Opposed To A Quiet World And I'll Take The Turbulent One.