Terry Gou famous quotes

They explained that if men want to put a large phone into their jeans, it has to be able to fit their buttocks. This is a company ranked worldwide number 1, number 2 in displays, and their marketing says this.
-- Terry Gou

#Technology #Men #Phones

Hungry people have especially clear minds.
-- Terry Gou

#People #Mind #Hungry

I never think I am successful. If I am successful, then I should be retired. If I am not retired, then that means I should still be working hard, keeping the company running.
-- Terry Gou

#Running #Mean #Successful

I respect the Japanese and especially like their execution and communication styles. Unlike the Koreans, they will not hit you from behind.
-- Terry Gou

#Communication #Style #Execution

Businesses should be focused on business and social responsibility should be government responsibility.
-- Terry Gou

#Responsibility #Government #Social

I always tell employees: The group's benefit is more important than your personal benefit,
-- Terry Gou

#Important #Benefits #Groups

As human beings are also animals, to manage one million animals gives me a headache.
-- Terry Gou

#Animal #Giving #Headache

I have often asked myself if I would have worked as hard if I was as ill as Steve Jobs. My answer is that my wife most likely would not have let me work, and I would have stayed home. But I am not Steve Jobs.
-- Terry Gou

#Jobs #Home #Wife

An interface can be a powerful narrative device. And as we collect more and more personally and socially relevant data, we have an opportunity, and maybe even an obligation, to maintain [our] humanity and tell some amazing stories.

The business models in enterprise have changed pretty dramatically. A huge problem with enterprise software traditionally has been usually you sell to the customer and then they adopt the technology. The great thing about 'freemium' and the new way enterprise software is being sold is you get to try it first and then buy it.

I interned at Miramax and subsequently at Paramount because I was really curious about the future of entertainment - how were we going to get films online? While the inspiration for Box didn't come from that experience directly, it was very obvious that bigger businesses had a lot of slow processes and cumbersome technology.

I tend to not discriminate when it comes to people I can learn from. Basically, if someone has built a meaningful business in software, technology or media, faced disruption and adversity, and overcame underdog status, I want to know how they did it.

Being around some of the bright lights of the technology world and having them expect great things helps you sit down and do it seriously.

Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.

There will come a day when the phone doesn't ring as much as it used to.

Three children have become adults since a phone call with Jo Rowling, containing one small clue, persuaded me that there was more to Snape than an unchanging costume, and that even though only three of the books were out at that time, she held the entire massive but delicate narrative in the surest of hands.

Psychedelic experience is only a glimpse of genuine mystical insight, but a glimpse which can be matured and deepened by the various ways of meditation in which drugs are no longer necessary or useful. If you get the message, hang up the phone. For psychedelic drugs are simply instruments, like microscopes, telescopes, and telephones. The biologist does not sit with eye permanently glued to the microscope, he goes away and works on what he has seen.

DJing for people is fun until someone comes up with a phone screen that has 'PLAY SOME RIHANNA' written on it. I prefer to play older songs because they're the ones I personally enjoy dancing and singing along to and modern dance music bores my brains out.