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Quotes from Henry Samueli

The owner's job is to hire the general manager. The general manager's job is to run the hockey team.
~ Henry Samueli
You have to want to put a competitive, Stanley Cup-caliber team on the ice in contrast to wanting to hopefully someday financially break even. So you have to really balance expenses with revenue.
~ Henry Samueli
We are happy to get great technology from anywhere, and we have eyes and ears that are checking out companies all over.
~ Henry Samueli
When we started out, you could design a chip with a few guys in a basement.
~ Henry Samueli
Once you used a computer with a broadband connection, you knew you would never be able go back to the old voiceband modem connection - even if it was free.
~ Henry Samueli
We covered every major segment of this broadband communications world.
~ Henry Samueli
For me, it's almost a 24/7 process. It's not like I only think when I'm in the office sitting at my desk.
~ Henry Samueli
I'm a perfectionist. And that's served me very well in my career. It allows me to handle these large, complex problems without letting things fall through the cracks... That is the mentality you have to have to attack these complex problems of chip design, for example, when you're overwhelmed with complexity.
~ Henry Samueli
To succeed in hockey, you need teamwork.
~ Henry Samueli
Chips will continue to shrink, of course. We, along with other semiconductor companies, are continuing to push toward the next goal of 10 nm, but going beyond 10 nm will require the development of new technologies, materials, and manufacturing processes that are still being perfected.
~ Henry Samueli
I just took it one step at a time and let fate determine my destiny.
~ Henry Samueli
You're not going to see a wholesale switch over to all 4K by 2K. It will start with one, two, three, four channels, just like high definition (HD) when it was first introduced.
~ Henry Samueli
It is always the genuine Teemu Selanne that you're seeing. He never puts on a show. It is Teemu. And that's what we love about him.
~ Henry Samueli
Passion is what gives meaning to our lives. It's what allows us to achieve success beyond our wildest imagination. Try to find a career path that you have a passion for.
~ Henry Samueli
Don't make career choices on short-term financial gain. Job satisfaction and career enjoyment are far more important.
~ Henry Samueli
It's the whole big picture that we have to look at to create an organization that wins over the long term. And to just shoot from the hip on a decision based on winning over a 10-game period. No, that doesn't make sense.
~ Henry Samueli
LTE has accelerated faster than most people had anticipated. It really took off very quickly from the time it was introduced. We did have our internal development road map, but we just needed to accelerate it.
~ Henry Samueli
For me, it's just a pleasure to be out in the community wearing my Ducks logo on shirts and hats and so forth in representing the team.
~ Henry Samueli
The high-tech business, the semiconductor business, it's very competitive. You're out there every day slugging it out, no different from players slugging it out on the ice.
~ Henry Samueli
Innovators are developing the ideas and bringing them to life in amazing new applications. All we, as an industry, need to do now is focus on standardizing the interfaces to ensure interoperability - and stand out of the way.
~ Henry Samueli
Long-term career aspirations encompass emotional and intellectual impact of work on society.
~ Henry Samueli
A team may have some great players, but typically, the team that works best together does the best. I look at running Broadcom in the same way. We have a culture where people have different skill sets, but they are happy to leverage their skills to help others and to help the company.
~ Henry Samueli
I don't know if anybody thought about how much impact the iPhone could have on society.
~ Henry Samueli
Just getting young kids excited about hockey, then they'll want to skate, they'll want to start joining junior leagues, they'll want to play in high school, etc., so we're trying to expand at all levels. That's good for the sport, and it's good for the Ducks long term.
~ Henry Samueli