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I think entrepreneurs have a great opportunity to think of how to make things more understandable, simple and beautiful.
My vision is to build an e-commerce ecosystem that allows consumers and businesses to do all aspects of business online.
This is a new phase in history where art, science, business and spirit will join together in the pursuit of true wealth.
If we can keep our competitors focused on us while we stay focused on the customer, ultimately we'll turn out all right.
This is the most important aviation development since Lindbergh's flight. In one fell swoop, we have shrunken the earth.
I think, social business is the most logical thing to do. If we had done that, we could reduce all the problems we have.
100% of Net-a-porter customers have a man in their lives in some capacity, and 59% are married or living with a partner.
For Net-A-Porter and its customers, luxury means exceptional service, 24-7 - wherever they are, whenever they have time.
People always say to me, 'You've really strived to redefine retail.' But the reality is, I wanted to redefine magazines.
Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
Having a great idea for a product is important, but having a great idea for product distribution is even more important.
Benevolent, enlightened, wise dictators are the most efficient form of government. The problem is what comes afterwards.
Simply writing a Ph.D. or academic book was unlikely to play much of a role in helping shape people's lives as I wanted.
The greed and envy of the nonproducer is insatiable, so that eventually nothing short of 100% taxation will appease him.
As a kid, I can't remember having anything to play with except a loose tooth. And that wasn't mine. It was my brother's.
There's a lot of symbolism to your return. Is that going to be enough to reinvigorate the company with a sense of magic?
Start with something simple and small, then expand over time. If people call it a 'toy' you're definitely onto something.
Free services like Wikipedia I don't think benefit anyone - they don't benefit the professional because they're not paid.
When you travel around Moscow, you can see almost every car is using a smartphone where they can see whats ahead of them.
I would never want to take TOMS or myself into an issues debate. That's not what we're about. We're about helping people.
You begin to fly when you let go of self-limiting beliefs and allow your mind and aspirations to rise to greater heights.
A person with average talent, ambition and education, can outstrip a genius in society, if that person has focused goals.
Success is not a miracle. Nor is it a matter of luck. Everything happens for a reason, good or bad, positive or negative.
Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.
Real entrepreneurs do what they say they're going to do, wannabes ask about it and have tons and tons of coffee meetings.
The secret to success: find something you love to do so much, you can’t wait for the sun to rise to do it all over again.
I've said that if you're not doing something that you're passionate about, you're compromising yourself every single day.
The audience might not be the size of Facebook, but how much time can you spend online and think, 'What did I just learn?
In social, you have to innovate in information. If you have the same thing as everyone else, you're just not interesting.
Life is so short. Why waste a single day of it doing something that doesn't matter, that doesn't try to do something big?
At the end of the day, the more quality individuals you develop in the community, the better off the community should be.
People are out there saying we have to devalue our properties because of the Internet, but it hasn't even come into play!
It doesn't matter if I failed. At least I passed the concept on to others. Even if I don't succeed, someone will succeed.
Every government says they love small businesses, but what have they done for them? We should pull down all the barriers.
The difference between Amazon and us is Amazon is more like an empire - everything they control themselves, buy and sell.
Technology, outsourcing, a growing temp staffing industry, productivity efficiencies, have all replaced the middle class.
The reason I bought the Tesla was to help fund the Model S - and because I like things that are fast, sexy and high-tech.
Before you dismiss a beginner's work, remember how much you sucked when you started. You probably sucked worse, actually.
I promise you, a lot of it is luck. But you make your own luck by working really hard and trying lots and lots of things.
I want the great masses of my people to take a greater pride in their appearance and to give their hair proper attention.
In the startup world, you're either a genius or an idiot. You're never just an ordinary guy trying to get through the day
The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content.
I believe that you should praise people whenever you can; it causes them to respond as a thirsty plant responds to water.
Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.
Mobile communications had been around for a long time, but always as a limited market, constrained by the radio spectrum.
Philanthropy without scale and sustainability is like any other bad business that will simply wither and die on the vine.
I believe there are Steve Jobses all around us. Really, what is happening is that they're being edited out of importance.
I want to fix education in the world. As soon as I work on that, I am going to work on world hunger and then world peace.
If the Starbucks secret is a smile when you get your latte... ours is that the Web site adapts to the individual's taste.
The reality is: a founder is someone who deals with a ton of different headaches and no one is universally super powered.