“Start with the assumption that the best way to do something is not the way it’s being done right now.”

I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.

Go after the customers that are working in the future, but haven’t totally lost their minds.

The product that wins is the one that bridges customers to the future, not the one that requires a giant leap.

Focus too much on the near-term and you won’t get tomorrow’s customers, focus too much on the long-term and you won’t get today’s.

We’re enamored with the concept that there’s always a price. But sometimes, your goal is to build a great company, not sell it.

Execute like there’s no tomorrow, strategize like there will be.

Look for new enabling technologies that create a wide gap between how things have been done and how they can be done.

Every single industry is going through a major business model and technology oriented disruption.

Innovation in tech favors the naive and the stubborn. If you are too rational you won’t tackle problems that others once failed at.

Tip: Take the stodgiest, oldest, slowest moving industry you can find. And build amazing software for it.

I’m certainly not into money and prestige. For me there is simply nothing more exciting than people involved in the creation of great products. That is what drives me.

Sometimes things are the way they are and can’t be changed, other times it’s because no one ever tried. Your job is to find the latter.

Do things that incumbents can’t or won’t do because it’s economically or technically infeasible.

If you’re waiting for encouragement from others, you’re doing it wrong. By the time people think an idea is good, it’s probably too late.

If every customer is using your product “correctly”, you’ll never learn anything interesting about what to do next.

The only barrier to entry you can create is to consistently build a great product.

There is no such thing as philosophy-free science, just science that has been conducted without any consideration of its underlying philosophical assumptions.

You proceed from a false assumption: I have no ego to bruise.

You should have a strategic asset allocation mix that assumes that you don’t know what the future is going to hold.

Start by assuming the market is always wrong, so if you copy everybody else on Wall Street, you’re doomed to do poorly.

The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry.

The biggest misconception about work is that you need to spend the majority of your time doing it.

Truth is the only healthy place from which to speak. Assumption is the birthplace of godless chatter.

Every facet, every department of your mind, is to be programmed by you. And unless you assume your rightful responsibility, and begin to program your own mind, the world will program it for you.