1.“Work like hell. I mean you just have to put in 80 to 100-hour weeks every week. This improves the odds of success.”
2.“The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.” — John D. Rockefeller Jr.
3.“Starting and growing a business is as much about the innovation, drive, and determination of the people behind it as the product they sell.”
4.“When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.”
5.“I don’t create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.”
6.“When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.”
7.“If something’s important enough, you should try. Even if the probable outcome is a failure.”
8.“Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.”
9.“If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.”— Steve Jobs, co-founder, Chairman and CEO of Apple Inc.
10.“I’d like to dial it back 5% or 10% and try to have a vacation that does not just email with a view.”
11.“A company is a group organized to create a product or service, and it is only as good as its people and how excited they are about creating.”
12.“I wouldn’t say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I’d like my fear emotion to be less because it’s very distracting and fries my nervous system.”
13.“If you’re trying to create a company, it’s like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.”
14.“If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.” — Steve Jobs, co-founder, Chairman and CEO of Apple Inc.
15.“I always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I’m not going to ask other people to invest in something if I’m not prepared to do so myself.”
16.“Fundamentally, if you don’t have a compelling product at a compelling price, you don’t have a great company.”
17.“If you can push through that feeling of being scared, that feeling of taking a risk, really amazing things can happen.” — Marissa Mayer, president & CEO of Yahoo!
18.“There’s no map. By its nature, it’s unknown, which means you’re going to make false moves. It must be OK to make false moves.”
19.“Always solicit critical feedback, particularly from friends. Because, generally, they will be thinking it, but they won’t tell you.”
20.“I care a lot about the truth of things and trying to understand the truth of things. I think that’s important. If you’re going to come up with some solution, then the truth is really, really important.”
21.“Start somewhere and then really be prepared to question your assumptions, fix what you did wrong, and adapt to reality.”
22.“I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I’m really good at email.”
23.“I think the high-tech industry is used to developing new things very quickly. You either move very quickly and you work hard to improve your product technology, or you get destroyed by some other company.”
24.“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs, Founder of Apple, Inc.
25.“People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.”
26.“If you want to grow a giant redwood, you need to make sure the seeds are ok, nurture the sapling, and work out what might potentially stop it from growing all the way along. Anything that breaks it at any point stops that growth.”
27.“If other people are putting in 40-hour workweeks and you’re putting in 100-hour workweeks, then even if you’re doing the same thing, you know that you will achieve in four months what it takes them a year to achieve.”