Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.
Meetings are indispensable when you don’t want to do anything.
If you don’t understand the details of your business you are going to fail.
Everyone is your best friend when you are successful. Make sure that the people that you surround yourself with are also the people that you are not afraid of failing with.
I want to put a ding in the universe.
Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.
Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.
Don’t let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn’t go with it.
I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate.
Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.
Hell, there are no rules here – we’re trying to accomplish something.
I buy when other people are selling.
The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you’re playing by somebody else’s rules, while quietly playing by your own.
And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
Carpe per diem – seize the check.
My son is now an ‘entrepreneur.’ That’s what you’re called when you don’t have a job.
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast.
