The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it’s so easy to be motivated.
There’ll always be serendipity involved in discovery.
It’s not an experiment if you know it’s going to work.
If you can’t feed a team with two pizzas, it’s too large.
Lowering prices is easy. Being able to afford to lower prices is hard.
I think if people read more, that is a better world.
One of the things that gets me up in the morning is knowing that customer expectations are always rising, and I find that very exciting.
Our premise is there are going to be a lot of winners. It’s not winner take all. Other people do not have to lose for us to win.
If you build a great product or service, people will talk about it. But it starts with having something that’s worth talking about.
Where you are going to spend your time and your energy is one of the most important decisions you get to make in life.
To get something new done you have to be stubborn and focused, to the point that others might find unreasonable.
The smartest people are constantly revising their understanding, reconsidering a problem they thought they’d already solved. They’re open to new points of view, new information, new ideas, contradictions, and challenges to their own way of thinking.
I don’t know about you, but most of my exchanges with cashiers are not that meaningful.
If you invent frequently and are willing to fail, then you never get to that point where you really need to bet the whole company.
I’m not saying that advertising is going away. But the balance is shifting. If today the successful recipe is to put 70 percent of your energy into shouting about your service and 30 percent into making it great, over the next 20 years I think that’s going to invert.
If you have a business model that relies on customers being misinformed, you better start working on changing your business model.
I wouldn’t be surprised if history records Tim Berners-Lee as the second Gutenberg.
We change our tools and then our tools change us.
I’m not prepared to make any multi-decade commitments.
Strip malls are history.