Every good product I’ve ever seen is because a group of people cared deeply about making something wonderful that they and their friends wanted. They wanted to use it themselves.
We had nothing to lose and everything to gain.
Don’t just live a life; build one.
That’s what makes great products. It’s not process-it’s content.
I think this is the start of something really big. Sometimes that first step is the hardest one, and we’ve just taken it.
There were good times, there were hard times, but there were never bad times.
After all the statistics and calculations are formulated, the one element that breathes life into marketing is good design.
How can you get fired from the company you started?
Kick-start your brain. New ideas come from watching something, talking to people, experimenting, asking questions and getting out of the office!
Follow your heart, but check it with your head.
I think the world’s a better place because Bill realized that his goal isn’t to be the richest guy in the cemetery, right?
The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work.
Find people who are competent and really bright, but more importantly, people who care exactly about the same things you care about.
If you want to hire great people and have them stay, you have to be run by ideas, not hierarchy. The best ideas have to win.
There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything.
If you’re afraid of failing you won’t get very far.
This revolution, the information revolution, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy.
Your customers dream of a happier and better life. Don’t move products. Instead, enrich lives.
To do anything of magnitude takes at least five years, more likely seven or eight. Rightfully or wrongfully, that’s how I think.
The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will produce.