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Louis Vuitton, the world’s biggest luxury brand in terms of sales, is planning to dampen its expansion worldwide and focus on high-end products to preserve its exclusive image.

In this industry, there’s a lot of cases of being a competitor in one way, but you’re often a customer and a vendor in another way. It’s not atypical in aerospace. Actually, it’s not that atypical in a lot of industries.

Don’t change a thing. That’s one of the best gimmicks a band could ever come up with.

I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.

I don’t create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.

Windows 8 is key to the future, the Surface computer.

The thing that’s been really surprising about the evolution of Facebook is – I think then, and I think now – that if we didn’t do this, someone else would have done it.

If you look at space companies, they’ve failed either because they’ve had a technical solution where success was not a possible outcome, they were unable to attract a critical mass of talent, or they just ran out of money. The finish line is usually a lot further away than you think.

Steve Jobs once asked me for some advice about retail, but I said, ‘I am not sure at all we are in the same business.’

You get a reputation for stability if you are stable for years.