Henry Samueli Quotes

I didn't generate my success by being a prognosticator. I developed my reputation building our businesses by building great businesses and making them more efficient.

I see the level of sophistication and knowledge about business growing dramatically. Several decades ago, only a few companies thought about international business.

I've gone to China, bought a manufacturing company and moved it to America. Now China wants to buy back some of that new technology from me. That's a great story for America.

We're talking to every third-party supplier every day of the week, and our traders are talking to them and buying products from them. When we're doing that, we see opportunities which no one else sees.

Some people have blithely dismissed growth in markets like China and India, saying Silicon Valley will always be the hub for tech: that everyone will come to us. Wake up: Because the numbers are showing money and talent is increasingly going elsewhere.

Whatever the scenario, the dynamism of developing nations, their demographics and competitive power are great sources for superiority.

China should be another United States from an economic standpoint. Beijing should be another Silicon Valley.

The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.

Since the beginning, HTC has focused on developing strong research and development capabilities and keeping a close eye on consumer, market and technology trends.

I don't keep up on a lot of the business trends.

My passion for innovation and my interest in the 'business of science' has seen Biocon commercialize many innovative platforms and products.

I'm always thinking as an outsider, and I'm always mindful of whether a company can be impactful on a global basis. Frankly, I'm paranoid about anyone anywhere who could be a competitive threat.

The entire world is now a rival to Silicon Valley. No country, state, region, nor city has a lock on innovation in technology anymore.

Out-innovating them is the way to beat China. And to do everything that we do in this country to support innovative policy, that drives innovation and new products and more jobs and creates jobs. You can't - you can't put a wall up around here. We tried that in the '30s. It didn't work.

In the economic competition, in the technological competition, we are competitors; we are not allies.

It would be idiotic to position ourselves against Silicon Valley.

When the venture industry started, it was enough to just have money and then it was enough to sort of have this big fuzzy brand. But now startups are getting a lot smarter.

Responding to Britain's future challenges will require unceasing agility in seeking out new alliances and refurbishing old ones inside Europe, not just outside it.

The key to our business, it's a lot of research.

The U.S. has always been a global innovation vanguard - driving advancements in computing, communication, and media to rail, automobiles, and aeronautics.

Through the SITA initiative, we are building bridges between India and East Africa by taking Indian companies to these countries to see with their own eyes what the opportunities are.

Bell Labs was a fantastic research organization but having them create and market new products for the world was terrible. They were not good marketers and yet it was AT&T engineers who were deciding what the products of the future were.

India should be an exporter of technology.

I've always studied business. Even when I was a ball player, I'd read business journals and the business sections of newspapers.

Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work