It’s very simple: The more successful you are, the more you’ll earn. But if you’re not successful, you will not earn a dime.
The web is just going to be one more of those major change factors that businesses face every decade.
The good music companies do an amazing thing. They have people who can pick the person that’s gonna be successful out of 5,000 candidates. And there’s not enough information to do that – it’s an intuitive process.
The people who built Silicon Valley were engineers. They learned business, they learned a lot of different things, but they had a real belief that humans, if they worked hard with other creative, smart people, could solve most of humankind’s problems. I believe that very much.
You’ve probably had somebody punch you in the stomach and it knocks the wind of you and you can’t breathe. That’s how I felt.
Be ready to catch the ball when it is thrown by life.
Don’t just follow your passion but something larger than yourself.
All the work I’ve done in my life will be obsolete by the time I’m fifty.
The lunatics have taken over the asylum and we can do anything we want.
The web is not going to change the world, certainly not in the next 10 years. It’s going to augment the world. And once you’re in this web-augmented space, you’re going to see that democratization takes place.
To have your whole music library with you at all times is a quantum leap in listening to music. How do we possibly do this?
In the first 30 years of your life, you make your habits. For the last 30 years of your life, your habits make you.
I don’t really care about being right, I just care about success.
When you have feelings like sadness or anger about your cancer or your plight, to mask them is to lead an artificial life.
None of us is as creative as all of us.
I think PCs are going to be like trucks. Fewer people will need them. And this is going to make some people uneasy.
People need to have the incentive that if they invest and succeed, they can make a fair profit. Otherwise they’ll stop investing.
I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.
Customers always want something new.
We do not say anything about future products. We work on them in secret, then we announce them.