Ideas in secret die. They need light and air or they starve to death.

It takes three years to be an overnight success, sometimes more.

One reason people who spend a lot of time thinking about and working on a problem or a craft seem to find breakthroughs more often than everyone else is that they've failed more often than everyone else.

If you don't know how it works, find out. If you're not sure if it will work, try it. If it doesn't make sense, play with it until it does. If it's not broken, break it. If it might not be true, find out.

Solving problems—actually solving them, not just claiming you do—solving perceived, urgent problems, is a surefire way to get the world to beat a path to your door.

I've found that giving gifts is transformative. It makes me better. It clarifies my thinking and allows me to do better work.

One way to think about running a successful business is to figure out what the least you can do is, and do that.