You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for.
When you innovate, you’ve got to be prepared for people telling you that you are nuts.
There is only one boss: the customer. And he can fire everybody in the company, from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
Whatever you’re thinking, think bigger.
Sweat equity is the most valuable equity there is.
You jump off a cliff and you assemble an airplane on the way down.
We are really competing against ourselves, we have no control over how other people perform.
Forget about your competitors, just focus on your customers.
Running a startup is like being punched in the face repeatedly, but working for a large company is like being waterboarded.
The cost of hiring someone bad is so much greater than missing out on someone good.
It’s not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.
A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.
Customers don’t care about your solution. They care about their problems.
You just have to pay attention to what people need and what has not been done.
Don’t be afraid to assert yourself, have confidence in your abilities and don’t let the bastards get you down.
Not having a clear goal leads to death by a thousand compromises.
The very first company I started failed with a great bang. The second one failed a little bit less, but still failed. The third one, you know, proper failed, but it was kind of okay. I recovered quickly. Number four almost didn’t fail. It still didn’t really feel great, but it did okay. Number five was PayPal.
Having a great startup pitch has more to do with setting up and running a great company than optimizing some type of sales process to investors. Great investors can see through most tactics that you will use in the pitch process, so the best fundraising strategy is to build a great company.
You can be comfortable in your career or extraordinary. Which one are you going to be?