Don’t just live a life; build one.
STEVE JOBSYou 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 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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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!
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Focus and simplicity – once you get there, you can move mountains.
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Learn continually – there’s always “one more thing” to learn!
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Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do.
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We don’t settle for anything less than excellence.
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I’m as proud of what we don’t do as I am of what we do.
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That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.
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Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity – not a threat.
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You can tell a lot about a person by who his or her heroes are.
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To go forward you have to leave something behind.
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Management is about persuading people to do things they do not want to do, while leadership is about inspiring people to do things they never thought they could.
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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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Let’s go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday.
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Never settle for average.
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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.
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Do not try to do everything. Do one thing well.
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A brand is simply trust.
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We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.
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If you don’t cannibalize yourself, someone else will.
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We’ve got to make the small things unforgettable.
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It’s not a faith in technology. It’s faith in people.
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The most precious resource we have is time.
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The hardest thing when you think about focusing. You think focusing is about saying “Yes.” No. Focusing is about saying “No.” And when you say “No,” you piss off people.
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Great things in business are never done by one person, they’re done by a team of people.
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I’m convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.
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