Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners.

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

The industry is healthy. Customers and partners that have elected to partner with AMD are seeing the opportunities that come with providing choice to their customers.

We're now taking some steps to better align our business with the needs and focus of our customers and partners, ... Our focus is on our business, and the community business centers will continue to serve as catalysts in their communities to expand affordable housing opportunities and to work with our customers and lenders to get more people into homes and help them remain in those homes.

I kind of treat myself like the audience. I don't like being lectured.

[Gates] said, 'You know, let's be partners in this. Let's figure this out so that it is done sanely.'