“Taiwan must find its own way. We have been emphasizing too much the ma...” — Barry Lam Quote

Taiwan must find its own way. We have been emphasizing too much the manufacturing business. We have to become more high-tech, more innovative, and provide more value. We can't always insist on the value of low-cost production. We have to invest more in R&D to get high-value business.

I like to see people enjoy using my product. This is the mission of an engineer.

Taiwan has been so well developed economically. But we are underdeveloped culturally.

When companies minimize their costs, they can spend more on R & D and marketing. It's just very logical.

I'm still a small shrimp, not a dragon.

Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.

If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.

In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits.

The digital apocalypse continues to blight the lives of television producers, music-industry executives and newspaper publishers, all of whom are scrambling to figure out how to reconfigure their business models in such a way as to allow them to make an honest buck.