“Cultures aren’t so much planned as they evolve from that early set of people.”

I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author’s world.

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author’s world.

There’ll always be serendipity involved in discovery.

Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice.

Focusing on the customer makes a company more resilient.

It’s harder to be kind than clever.

What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you – what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind – you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn’t a strategy.

The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.

I’d rather interview 50 people and not hire anyone than hire the wrong person.

If you’re truly obsessed over customers, it’ll cover a lot of errors.

Our point of view is we will sell more if we help people make purchasing decisions.

Though we are optimistic, we must remain vigilant and maintain a sense of urgency.

If you build a great product or service, people will talk about it. But it starts with having something that’s worth talking about.

If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.

There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.

In Eastern culture, people see ghosts, people talk about ghosts, it’s just accepted. And in Western culture it’s just not.

I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.

The frenzy of the little-girl culture is something very unique, and I can only say that because I was one. The obsession – I can’t really explain it. Everything is heightened to the maximum.

The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn’t exist in every culture.

The idea of a hypnotic riff as the prime mover of a piece of music has been around for a long time, whether you’re talking about the Delta blues or music from Middle Eastern and African cultures.

Even now, nature is the only flame, on which the poetic spirit feeds; from it alone it draws all its power, to it alone it speaks even in the artificial, in the man engaged in culture.

Music is an important part of our culture and record stores play a vital part in keeping the power of music alive.

We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.