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Deal honestly and objectively with yourself; intellectual honesty and personal courage are the hallmarks of great character.
Determine a single measure that you can use to grade your progress and success in each area of your life. Refer to it daily.
The purpose of a business is to create and keep a customer. All business activities must be focused on this central purpose.
The only pressure that you use in a professional selling presentation is the presence of silence after the closing question.
No one ever laid out the sequence of events that led to my mother being prosecuted and imprisoned for alleged welfare fraud.
At Spotify, we really want you to democratically win as a musician. We want you to win because your music is the best music.
It's true that I have never met any man whom I thought altogether resembled me - but only because my faults are so enormous.
You may be wondering why there are words on my hands. That's because I'm a dork. And I'm gonna choose not to explain myself.
OK, I wasn't really paying attention to YouTube in the year after it began. No one was. But its growth was remarkably rapid.
IBM, Microsoft, the profit they made was larger than the top four banks in China put together... But where did the money go?
It's not that other countries steal jobs from you guys. It's your strategy. Distribute the money and things in a proper way.
Here's what a phone is: It's a computer that has a little app on it that allows me to dial numbers and then talk to someone.
I get a lot of emails from entrepreneurs. The best ones are short, to the point and include some question and/or the product
Bottom line: If you can't spare some time to give your employees the chance to wow you, you'll never get the best from them.
There is no map, and charting a path ahead will not be easy. We will need to invent, which means we will need to experiment.
Our vision is every book ever printed in any language [fetched and viewable on our eBook Kindle device] in under 60 seconds.
My definition of happiness is having something to do what you love to do, someone to love, and something to look forward to.
I think the screen size chosen for the iPad is perfect for publishers to render content beautifully, for games to be played.
I came to the conclusion that unless you are ruled properly, you cannot move forward. Everything else is second. Everything.
Remember, 2000 was the year of the dot-com bust. The telecom industry lost about $2 trillion in market capital at that time.
Our economy is broken. I'm not a politician, but neither is Donald Trump. He is a builder, and it's time to rebuild America.
I believe that evolution is a true account of nature, but I think we should try to escape it or transcend it in our society.
Don't bother starting the 10,000th restaurant in Manhattan. Find something to do that if you don't do it, it won't get done.
You should pursue your passion. If you're passionate about something and you work hard, then I think you will be successful.
The Netflix brand for TV shows is really all about binge viewing. The ability to get hooked and watch episode after episode.
There is a revolution happening, and within two years I think that Wi-Fi and Netflix will be built into all the televisions.
Social networks do best when they tap into one of the seven deadly sins. Facebook is ego. Zynga is sloth. LinkedIn is greed.
All humans are entrepreneurs not because they should start companies but because the will to create is encoded in human DNA.
I think Hillary [Clinton] has [woken up to the plight of the middle class] and is working toward it in a democratic process.
If you want to become good at something, do it as often as possible. If you want to become an expert at it, do it every day.
Gray hats are the ones who think they're doing good, but they're not. You learn that when the FBI shows up on your doorstep.
Successes are always unique and hard to copy. The fact that easyJet became a success is due to a mixture of talent and luck.
If you want to hire great people and have them stay, you have to be run by ideas, not hierarchy. The best ideas have to win.
I'm as proud of many of the things we haven't done as the things we have done. Innovation is saying no to a thousand things.
It's very simple: The more successful you are, the more you'll earn. But if you're not successful, you will not earn a dime.
It's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing.
I got very interested in people who had discovered something more significant than ... intellectual, abstract understanding.
People equated burning CDs with theft. That's not what burning CDs is. Theft is about acquiring the music from the Internet.
I've done a lot of things I'm not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that.
Uber is a $3.5 billion lesson in building for how the world *should* work instead of optimizing for how the world *does* work
Entrepreneurs are not that special. If you are one, stop drinking the Kool Aid, and if you aren't, definitely don't drink it.
At The Body Shop we had always been measured by how many jobs we had created, and I got a major award from the Queen on that.
I don't get jet lagged that much. I'm so used to traveling and being in different places every day that I can sleep anywhere.
Our Feast gatherings, which has spread all over the world, is attended by young people - and they love to sing worship songs.
Teach the kids. They need to learn how to handle, grow and multiply money. It's basic and should be taught at an early stage.
Act with purpose, courage, confidence, competence and intelligence until these qualities 'lock in' to your subconscious mind.
The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.
You can accomplish virtually anything if you want it badly enough and if you are willing to work long enough and hard enough.
By 2007, we were finally living in a culture where people get what networks are and what technology can do to connect people.
Because the way love works in general, you don't need everybody to like you somewhat - you need one person to like you a lot.