Once you discover one simple fact, and that is everything around you that you call life, was made up by people that were no smarter than you.

I do not adopt softness towards others because I want to make them better.

I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out ok.

Let’s go invent tomorrow rather than worrying about what happened yesterday.

Ultimately, it comes down to taste. It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done and then try to bring those things into what you’re doing.

For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.

The products suck! There’s no sex in them anymore

You have to believe that the dots will somehow connect in your future.

In the broadest context, the goal is to seek enlightenment – however you define it

I’m actually as proud of many of the things we haven’t done as the things we have done

The doers are the major thinkers. The people that really create the things that change this industry are both the thinker and doer in one person. 

Get closer than ever to your customers. So close that you tell them what they need well before they realize it themselves.

Details matter, it’s worth waiting to get it right

Don’t get hung up on who owns the idea. Pick the best one, and let’s go.

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great

Others can stop you temporarily - you are the only one who can do it permanently.

Failing is an event, not a person. Yesterday ended last night.

Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there.

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds

It’s not what you’ve got, it’s what you use that makes a difference

If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal

If you learn from defeat, you haven’t really lost

Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is

The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity