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“A good hockey player skates to where the puck is. A great hockey player skates to where the puck is going to be.”
Wayne Gretzky | 5 things that destroy a company’s value
“[Tim Berners-Lee] told me about his proposed system called the ‘World Wide Web.’ And I thought, well, that’s got a pretentious name.”
“Pick one thing and do that one thing — and only that one thing — better than anyone else ever could.”
Jason Goldberg, CEO, Fab.com | 15 things successful CEOs want you to know
“Only reinvent the wheels you need to get rolling.”
Matt Mullenweg, CEO, Automattic | 15 things successful CEOs want you to know
“To pivot is, essentially, to fail gracefully.”
“I used to think that technology could help education. I’ve probably spearheaded giving away more computer equipment to schools than anybody else on the planet. But I’ve had to come to the inevitable conclusion that the problem is not one that technology can hope to solve. What’s wrong with education cannot be fixed with technology. No amount of technology will make a dent. It’s a political problem.”
Steve Jobs | 1996 interview with Wired.com
“I sometimes hear other startup folks say something along the lines of: “If entrepreneurship was a science, then anyone could do it.” I’d like to point out that even science is a science, and still very few people can do it, let alone do it well. Science requires vision, just as startups require vision.”
Eric Ries | Are You Building The Right Product?
There’s something even more limited than time. It’s your attention. Attention is a subset of time, therefore it’s more limited. How you spend your attention is more important than how you spend your time.
Attention is about focus and careful, thoughtful consideration. Unlike time – which can be broken into convenient chunks of 15 minutes – attention doesn’t divide quite so neatly or easily.
You hear a lot about “quality time” being valuable, but I think quality attention is invaluable. Giving someone your attention is giving more than just giving your time. The greatest things you make and do are the ones that get your full attention.
“The man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.”
Mark Twain
“I feel like clout is something that builds up on your teeth.”
Andrew Mason, CEO, Groupon | Is Groupon’s Bizarre CEO Ruining His IPO?
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life… Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
Steve Jobs | ThinkExist.com
“Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It’s not about money. It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it.”
Steve Jobs | Money Quotes, Steve Jobs-Style | Wired.com
“It’s better to be a pirate than to join the Navy.”
Steve Jobs | Money Quotes, Steve Jobs-Style | Wired.com
