Persistence isn't using the same tactics over and over. Persistence is having the same goal over and over.

Piracy is not the problem, obscurity is.

No, the only way to know what people think is to watch what they do, not what they say. Do they come back for more? Do you cause them to change their behavior? Can you make them smile?

Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.

Excellence isn't about meeting the spec, it's about setting the spec.

To make a product, to market an idea, to come up with any problem you want to solve that doesn't have a constituency with an otaku, is almost impossible... There's a hot sauce otaku, but there's no mustard otaku.

The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow.