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

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.

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.

I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.

A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer.

Some people are very good at being 'stars' and it suits them. I'm grudging about it and I find it annoying.

There's something intrinsically therapeutic about choosing to spend your time in a wide, open park-like setting that non-golfers can never truly understand.

Well I have you know, several CD's out; one of my best friends is Sully Erna from Godsmack - he is Godsmack, and we're going to be working on an album together.

Read not the Times, read the Eternities.

I take my vacation on the combine and tractor.

I'm very moved by Renaissance music, but I still love to play hard rock - though only if it's sophisticated and has some thought behind it.

The ability to save automatically is among the most powerful tools available to us.

I neither want it [brandy] nor need it, but I should think it pretty hazardous to interfere with the ineradicable habit of a lifetime.