Be really picky with your hiring, and hire the absolute best people you possibly can. People are the most important component of almost every business, and attracting the best talent possible is going to make a huge difference.

Don’t stand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

Most 'impossible' goals can be met simply by breaking them down into bite-size chunks, writing them down, believing them, and then going full speed ahead as if they were routine.

Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.

Don’t be cocky. Don’t be flashy. There’s always someone better than you.

Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.

I’m not a businessman

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.

Happiness is not a goal, but a by-product.

One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves. You don’t choose your passions; your passions choose you.

Never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

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

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.

One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves. You don’t choose your passions; your passions choose you.