Don’t bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.
Always focus on the front windshield and not the rearview mirror.
No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.
Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.
It’s a disgrace that we have millions of people who are uninsured.
Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.
If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.
Just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you’ve got to compromise. You’ve got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward.
Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.
Avoiding the phrase ‘I don’t have time’, will soon help you to realize that you do have the time needed for just about anything you choose to accomplish in life.
Not being in tune with your customers is like living in an alternate reality; the way you think your customers feel about your product is not always the same as what your customers really think about your product.
Most of us are consumed with our own thoughts and desires and are not always thinking about what other people may want. This is not necessarily being egocentric; it is just being human.
Self-sabotage is like a game of mental tug-of-war. It is the conscious mind versus the subconscious mind where the subconscious mind always eventually wins.
Not managing your time and making excuses are two bad habits. Don’t put them both together by claiming, you don’t have the time.
Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds. As you begin to master concepts in personal achievement, you are increasing your odds of achieving success.
I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation.
We can create the ultimate job security by becoming less dependant on the organization for which we work and more dependent on our own resources.
A good leader is one who can tell another how to reach his or her potential; a great leader is one who can help another discover this potential for him or herself.
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.
If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.
When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven’t.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are: hard work, stick-to-itiveness, and common sense.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won’t work.
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
If today were the last day of your life, would you want to do what you are about to do today?
I think the things you regret most in life are the things you didn’t do.
Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.
I’m convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.
When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.
Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.
The path to the CEO’s office should not be through the CFO’s office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design.
Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.
I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better.
There’s a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering.
It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.
Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time. Sometimes it will be ahead, other times it will be behind. But brand is simply a collective impression some have about a product.
It is a mistake to hire huge numbers of people to get a complicated job done. Numbers will never compensate for talent in getting the right answer (two people who don’t know something are no better than one), will tend to slow down progress, and will make the task incredibly expensive.
Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff you are not moving fast enough.
I mean, the real story is actually pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.
People don’t care about what you say, they care about what you build.
I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.
Give everyone the power to share anything with anyone.
The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.
If you just work on stuff that you like and you’re passionate about, you don’t have to have a master plan with how things will play out.
People can be really smart or have skills that are directly applicable, but if they don’t really believe in it, then they are not going to really work hard.
Our society needs more heroes who are scientists, researchers, and engineers. We need to celebrate and reward the people who cure diseases, expand our understanding of humanity and work to improve people’s lives.
I look at Google and think they have a strong academic culture. Elegant solutions to complex problems.
