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"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition."
"Make it like a sunflower."
"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."
"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. Everything else is secondary."
"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."
"You have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future... The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it... Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."
"Your customers don't care about you. They don't care about your product or service. They care about themselves, their dreams, their goals. Now, they will care much more if you help them reach their goals, and to do that, you must understand their goals, as well as their needs and deepest desires."
"If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don't have to be pushed. The vision pulls you."
"Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently - they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do."
"It takes a lot of hard work to make something simple."
"Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity - not a threat"
"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life."
"Great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people."
"the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do."
"Do not try to do everything. Do one thing well."
"Everything is based on a simple rule: Quality is the best business plan, period."
"The most important decisions you make are not the things you do, but the things you decide not to do."
"Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected."
"Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me ... Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me."