“You can’t win on innovation unless you have a way to communicate it to customers.”

It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.

If you keep your eye on the profit, you’re going to skimp on the product. But if you focus on making really great products, then the profits will follow.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

People don’t know what they want until you show it to them. That’s why I never rely on marketing research. Our task is to read things that are not yet on the page.

I don’t think of my life as a career. I do stuff. I respond to stuff. That’s not a career – it’s a life!

I’m as proud of what we don’t do as I am of what we do.

You can’t look at the competition and say you’re going to do it better. You have to look at the competition and say you’re going to do it differently.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions.

We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what matters to me.

I’m convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

If you’re afraid of failing you won’t get very far.

Learn continually – there’s always “one more thing” to learn!

If you define the problem correctly, you almost have the solution.

Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.

Even if your competitor is still small in size or weak, you should take him seriously and treat him as a giant. Likewise, even if your competitor is massive in size, you shouldn’t regard yourself as a weakling.

I may not always be offered work, but I’ll always have my family.

You never lose a dream, it just incubates as a hobby.

Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.

Never ever do business with the government. Be in love with them, never marry them.

I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing.

Nobody but you is responsible for your life.