Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.

Be undeniably good. No marketing effort or social media buzzword can be a substitute for that.

Every feature has some maintenance cost, and having fewer features lets us focus on the ones we care about and make sure they work very well.

I don’t have big ideas. I sometimes have small ideas, which seem to work out.

Hire character. Train skill.

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

The secret to successful hiring is this: look for the people who want to change the world.

In all things that you do, consider the end.

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

You have a viable business only if your product is either better or cheaper than the alternatives. If it’s not one or the other, you might make some money at first, but it’s not a sustainable business.

To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.

I wasn’t satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement.

Take risks and you'll get the payoffs. Learn from your mistakes until you succeed. It's that simple.

Success is how high you bounce after you hit bottom.

All cats love fish but fear to wet their paws.