“if you base your business on the volume leader, you will be going after a larger business yourself”

“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”

“How can you motivate yourself to continue to follow a leader when he appears to be going around in circles?”

“In short, strategic inflection points are about fundamental change in any business, technological or not”

“Businesses fail either because they leave their customers or because their customer leave them !”

“a strategic inflection point is a time in the life of business when its fundamentals are about to change. that change can mean an opportunity to rise to new heights. But it may just as likely signal the beginning of the end”

“The ability to recognize that the winds have shifted and to take appropriate action before you wreck your boat in crucial to the future of an enterprise”