I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.

If you truly have a passion for what you do, you will care even about the parts unseen.

...never let a passion for the perfect take precedence over pragmatism.

Without Steve Jobs, you would have well-designed computers, probably open and not integrated, but they wouldn't have sex appeal, they wouldn't have romance.

Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to avoid bruising others, are generally not as effective at forcing change.

Mainly, the reason people who didn't succeed had trouble because they had trouble forming teams. They didn't know how to collaborate.

The older I get, the more I see how much motivations matter. The Zune was crappy because the people at Microsoft don’t really love music or art the way we do. We won because we personally love music.