Don't worry, be crappy. Revolutionary means you ship and then test... Lots of things made the first Mac in 1984 a piece of crap - but it was a revolutionary piece of crap.
Guy Kawasaki
Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.
If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society's heroes.
A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.
Great companies start because the founders want to change the world... not make a fast buck.
What I lack in talent, I compensate with my willingness to grind it out. That's the secret of my life.
A large social-media presence is important because it's one of the last ways to conduct cost-effective marketing. Everything else involves buying eyeballs and ears. Social media enables a small business to earn eyeballs and ears.
Great companies start because the founders want to change the world... not make a fast buck. Call me a romantic, but I think entrepreneurs should try to change the world. This comes from working at Apple... old habits die hard.
If you provide enough value, then you earn the right to promote your company in order to recruit new customers. The key is to always provide value.
Simple and to the point is always the best way to get your point across.
Good people hire people better than themselves. So A players hire A+ players. But others hire below their skills to make themselves look good. So B players hire C players. C players hire D players, etc.
Ambitious failure, magnificent failure, is a very good thing.
The good news about entrepreneurship is that your fate is in your hands. The bad news is that your fate is in your hands!
The most important thing is that you hire people who complement you and are better than you in specific areas. Good people hire people better than themselves. So A players hire A+ players.
There are two ways to approach the application process: trying to hit a home run by getting an immediate 'Yes, here's an offer' or trying not to be eliminated. I recommend the second approach.
If you make money, you might not make meaning.
Entitlement is the opposite of enchantment.
The jewelry business is a very, very tough business - tougher than the computer business. You truly have to understand how to take care of your customers.
The A-listers and the A+ listers, are reporting the news, they're not making it.
Smart, well-meaning people get it wrong when they start believing that the world owes them something and that the rules are different for them.
A crash is when your competitor's program dies. When your program dies, it is an 'idiosyncrasy'.
Entrepreneurship is not for everyone.
My recommendation for SEO is very simple. It's Write Good Stuff. In my mind, Google is in the business of finding good stuff. It has thousands of the smartest people in the world, spending billions of dollars to find the good stuff. All you have to do is write the good stuff; you don't need to trick it.
The right algorithm is to put off seeking funds for as long as physically possible. And in an ideal world, a startup would never have to seek funds at all.
A 50-year-old company can innovate as well as two guys/gals in a garage.
A simple summary of my life is that my parents worked very hard so that I could have a great education, and I took that education and worked very hard to get where I am. I would like my kids' lives to be exactly the same.
I would like my kids to inherit a world where people succeed because of merit and hard work, not entitlement, and where people accept others for what they are and not try to change them.
I do have a peripatetic and active intellectual curiosity.
I think a lot of the logic of Google+ is much better in terms of notification of messages to you, in terms of how you post. One very obvious feature is that with Google+, after you post something, you can edit it forever. That is true of both posts and comments. I edit almost every post I make and almost every comment I make.
My mother taught me not to take any crap from anyone and to stand up for my rights. You might not believe this lesson came from a tiny Japanese woman, but it's true.
What I learned from my kids is that the greatest joy in life is not from material trappings, power, or visibility. The greatest joy comes from your kids. Nothing is even close to my kids in terms of bringing me joy.
I've been all over the world meeting with companies and startups and entrepreneurs. And I tell you, they are more similar than different.
Leverage your brand. You shouldn't let two guys in a garage eat your shorts.
You really can't spend money on social media unless you really try. Social media is really more about effort than expense.
I love the notification system on Google+. If someone mentions you, you get notified via Gmail. That's very useful for someone like me.
I started my career counting diamonds and schlepping gold jewelry around the world. The jewelry business is a very, very tough business - tougher than the computer business. You truly have to understand how to take care of your customers.
At the end of my life, is it better to say that I empowered people to make great stuff, or that I died with a net worth of $10 billion? Obviously I'm picking the former, although I would not mind both.
When you enchant people, your goal is not to make money from them or to get them to do what you want, but to fill them with great delight.
I think that no one, or very few, are born as good presenters. It's a skill that you learn. The key is the 10/20/30 rule: 10 slides given in 20 minutes using no font smaller than 30 points. If people just adhered to this rule, they would double or triple the quality of their presentations.
Many Android users aren't aware of some the things that Android can already do such as supporting the enforcement of companywide security policies, encrypting phone data and providing e-mail and calendar widgets that update in real-time. Our job is to help people and businesses discover and use these features.
When I finally got a management position, I found out how hard it is to lead and manage people.
Social media allows me to pick my times for social interaction.
Every social media post should have a beautiful graphic. If there are two identical stories, the one with the beautiful graphic will always win.
If you look at my Twitter feed it is 99% links, but 1% is me responding and 1% of a big number is a big number.
Not many people agree with what I do.
Different parts of the world have different attitudes to failure. Arguably, it may take more courage to be an entrepreneur in Sydney, or Paris, or London, or Japan, or Singapore... but an entrepreneur sees the world for what it could be, not what it is.
Most people who graduate from college think they have to make a perfect choice. Is it Goldman Sachs? Is it Google? Is it Apple? They think that their first job is going to determine their career, if not their life.
What you learn in school is the opposite of what happens in the real world. In school, you're always worried about minimums. You have to reach 20 pages or you have to have so many slides or whatever. Then you get out in the real world and you think, 'I have to have a minimum of 20 pages and 50 slides.'
I have developed a Zen-like approach to the operating systems that people use: 'When you're ready, the right operating system will appear in your life.'
Evangelism is selling a dream.
