I failed my way to success.

You can say anything to anyone, but how you say it will determine how they will react.

User experience is everything. It always has been, but it’s undervalued and underinvested in. If you don’t know user-centered design, study it. Hire people who know it. Obsess over it. Live and breathe it. Get your whole company on board.

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

I didn’t go to college, but if I did, I would’ve taken all my tests at a restaurant, ’cause ‘The customer is always right.’

Even if you don’t have the perfect idea to begin with, you can likely adapt.

The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.

If you’re not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.

The diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor the man perfected without trials.

When you cease to dream you cease to live

The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps – we must step up the stairs.

“I don’t pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages.

I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others… I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.

Don’t take too much advice. Most people who have a lot of advice to give — with a few exceptions — generalize whatever they did. Don’t over-analyze everything. I myself have been guilty of over-thinking problems. Just build things and find out if they work.

It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

If you can do something to get somebody excited — not everybody — but if you can be the best for somebody, then you can win.