“You cannot mandate productivity, you must provide the tools to let people become their best.”

The journey is the reward.

Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do.

It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.

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.

A brand is simply trust.

The most precious resource we have is time.

Innovation is usually the result of connections of past experiences.

If you don’t cannibalize yourself, someone else will.

Great things in business are never done by one person, they’re done by a team of people.

You go to your TV to turn your brain off. You go to the computer when you want to turn your brain on.

Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity – not a threat.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.

The most important decisions you make are not the things you do, but the things you decide not to do.

Manage the top line: your strategy, your people, and your products, and the bottom line will follow.

In the first 30 years of your life, you make your habits. For the last 30 years of your life, your habits make you.

Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.

One person can change the world.

Position yourself with something that captures your curiosity, something that you’re missionary about.

Profits are better than wages. Wages make you a living; profits make you a fortune.

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.

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

Don’t put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

The greatest dreams are always unrealistic.

If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.