“Details matter, it’s worth waiting to get it right.”

I sat in a garage and invented the future.

It’s better to be a pirate than to join the Navy.

The mark of an innovative company is not only that it comes up with new ideas first, but also that it knows how to leapfrog when it finds itself behind.

You have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.

None of us are as creative as all of us.

Without passion, any rational person would give up!

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.

Our success has really been based on partnerships from the very beginning.

Make a game plan and stick to it. Unless it’s not working.

The United States is definitely ahead in culture of innovation. If someone wants to accomplish great things, there is no better place than the U.S.

Image means a lot. It is everything in the business that we are in.

If thou wishest to get rid of thy evil propensities, thou must keep far from evil companions.

I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it.

We always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but it isn’t. Success often lies just the other side of failure.

There’s nobody in the business strong enough to scare me.