Business has only two basic functions – marketing and innovation.
If you look after your staff, they’ll look after your customers. It’s that simple.
Never take your eyes off the cash flow because it’s the life blood of business.
As a leader of people, you have to be a great listener, a great motivator, be very good at praising and bringing out the best in people.
If you don’t make bold moves, the world doesn’t move forward.
Financial freedom is available to those who learn about it and work for it.
Building your own business is the best way to become rich. Then you can begin investing in other assets.
Everyone can tell you the risk. An entrepreneur can see the reward.
Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
Entrepreneurs don’t finish when we are tired. We finish when we are done.
Failure is part of the process of success.
Win-win is a belief in the Third Alternative. It’s not your way or my way; it’s a better way, a higher way.
You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.
Manage the top line: your strategy, your people, and your products, and the bottom line will follow.
Every once in a while, a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything.
You’ve got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology. You can’t start with the technology and try to figure out where you’re going to sell it.
Every once in a while a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything. It’s very fortunate if you can work on just one of these in your career. Apple’s been very fortunate in that it’s introduced a few of these.
We’re here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise, why even be here? We’re creating a completely new consciousness, like an artist or a poet. That’s how you have to think of this. We’re rewriting the history of human thought with what we’re doing.
If you define the problem correctly, you almost have the solution.
Ninety-nine percent of people believe they can’t do great things, so they aim for mediocrity.