A 50-year-old company can innovate as well as two guys/gals in a garage.

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.

If you must use more than ten slides to explain your business, you probably don't have a business.

Not many people agree with what I do.

Just do what's right for the customer, and you'll be okay.

Pursue joy, not happiness. This is probably the hardest lesson of all to learn. It probably seems to you that the goal in life is to be happy. Oh, you maybe have to sacrifice and study and work hard, but, by and large, happiness should be predictable.

I want to know which idea you're going to kill yourself trying to make successful, not which ideas have crossed your idle mind.