When cultural change succeeds, it succeeds because it's so embedded in what we do that we don't have to think about.
You know, people come from cultures all around the world. Many of those cultures, you know, are not terribly successful. You can tell because you go to the countries and they're doing really poorly, and a lot of why they're doing poorly is because of the outlook, mind-set, and behavior of the people.
Whenever societies do well, they believe that there is something in their cultural DNA that made it happen.
After all, you're not exactly a nation like all the other nations. You are unique, if only because you are such an ancient people, and because of the way you are spread all over the world and your obvious success in many fields.
My thinking is that if we're going to take from a culture, let's take from a culture that has exemplified success for thousands of years.
A cheerful intelligent face is the end of culture, and success enough. For it indicates the purpose of Nature and wisdom attained.
Whatever success we have had in maintaining our culture has been instrumental in Intel's success in surviving strategic inflection points.
I live in a country where music has very little success, though, exclusive of those who have forsaken us, we have still admirable professors and, more particularly, composers of great solidity, knowledge, and taste.
In our culture right now, I want to take on this notion of what a singular success means. We think success is one thing, but it's actually a spectrum of where our life takes us.
