We need to understand what innovation will be built on top of our networks.

It is users that are driving the networks with innovations on top of the networks and with innovations in the devices space. This is very healthy.

Historically, the mobile industry has been focused on the consumer, getting better performance and throughput to their devices.

When you start losing market share, it's really tough to gain it back; you need the product portfolio and presence in many markets.

Many people want to be a part of this industry only because of its glamour. What they have to understand is that it takes hard work to make it big. Imitation and bootlicking won't get you through.

I gave up planning when our children were born, when I had three children to feed and a roof to keep over our head and all of that. Early in my career, I said I would never do television at all; then I wound up doing nothing but television for 10 years when I did 'St. Elsewhere' and all those TV movies.

You can be an idiot and survive because you just go to McDonalds for your food, and you go to work and do some sort of inane job, which is nobody taking any responsibility - it's always up the line - and then you watch the Super Bowl, and that's it. But in the old days, you really had to know how your world works. You don't need that anymore.

I have never had a plan when it comes to my career: America came to me with an opportunity.