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.
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Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do.
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Learn continually – there’s always “one more thing” to learn!
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Your customers don’t care about you. They don’t care about your product or service. They care about themselves, their dreams, their goals. Now, they will care much more if you help them reach their goals, and to do that, you must understand their goals, as well as their needs and deepest desires.
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Never settle for average.
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You have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.
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Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.
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Innovation is usually the result of connections of past experiences.
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Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it’s really how it works.
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Pursue your dreams and see the opportunities in life’s setbacks.
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Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect.
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I would rather gamble on our vision than make a ‘me, too’ product.
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It’s better to be a pirate than to join the Navy.
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Details matter, it’s worth waiting to get it right.
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I want to put a ding in the universe.
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If you don’t cannibalize yourself, someone else will.
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The most important decisions you make are not the things you do, but the things you decide not to do.
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The day I was born songs were on records, phones were tied down, computers needed rooms and the web was fiction. Change the world. You can.
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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.
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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.
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You go to your TV to turn your brain off. You go to the computer when you want to turn your brain on.
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Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.
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Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.
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You have to be burning with “an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right.” If you’re not passionate enough from the start, you’ll never stick it out.
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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.
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Focusing is all about saying no.
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Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
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