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If you allowed PayPal to pursue its destiny, there are moves it could make to become the largest financial company in the world.
Leadership requires creating conditions that enable employees to do the kinds of experimentation that entrepreneurship requires.
Basically we get confused a bit about what retail is. It is really just buying things, putting them on a floor and selling them.
On the tech side, little start-ups can do something magnificent. They don't need too much in terms of plants and infrastructure.
Gaming content is exactly what YouTube wants (the videos are long, the audiences are engaged, and thus people stay on the site).
It's impossible for China to keep 10 to 15% growth annually. The economy needed to slow down, and we have to learn to slow down.
My dream is to find individuals who take financial resources and convert them into changing the world in the most positive ways.
Wealth today has been created by a world view dominated by fast-moving networks, open information, bottom-up entrepreneurialism.
Don't Time travel into the past. You can't change it. Today it starts all over again. Every tomorrow is determined by every day.
One of the secret benefits of using remote workers is that the work itself becomes the yardstick to judge someone's performance.
When meetings are the norm - the first resort, the go-to tool to discuss, debate, and solve every problem - they no longer work.
Our premise is there are going to be a lot of winners. It's not winner take all. Other people do not have to lose for us to win.
We want PC makers to have better audio because these things are used as home stereos by a lot of people, and that makes it suck.
Ten to 20 years out, driving your car will be viewed as equivalently immoral as smoking cigarettes around other people is today.
I'm not so naive as to think that everybody always succeeds, right? I mean, half of Shakespeare's stories are tragedies - right?
Women in Africa are really the pillar of the society, are the most productive segment of society, actually. They do agriculture.
All the conservation efforts in the world won't be enough to make a dent in the oncoming sustainability crisis our planet faces.
If you don't hire at least one or two people that are smarter than you are, then you're a terrible manager and I don't need you.
The most successful businesses have an idea for the future that's very different from the present - and that's not fully valued.
I think it's a problem that we don't have more companies like Facebook. It shouldn't be the only company that's doing this well.
If I ever hear a founder talk about oh this is how I have a balanced life so on and so forth - they're not committed to winning.
The metaphor that I frequently use for entrepreneurship is jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane plane on the way down.
Nearly every moment of every day, we have the opportunity to give something to someone else - our time, our love, our resources.
It's never the end game. Facebook is now a platform upon which all kinds of applications are being built it's definitely not it.
It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.
Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.
To do anything of magnitude takes at least five years, more likely seven or eight. Rightfully or wrongfully, that's how I think.
If you're gonna make connections which are innovative... you have to not have the same bag of experiences as everyone else does.
My whole life's been stability. People who have worked with me have for a long time. Air Asia is the same people who started it.
I love travel because you may be uncomfortable, hungry, hot and sweaty, cold and shivering…but damn it, you will never be bored.
If you are focused on profits right out of the gate, you're gonna have the smallest profitable business that has ever been seen.
[The PlayStation 2 is a] historic, a mass-market appliance that fundamentally changes society in the way the printing press did.
A lot of being productive personally is determined by how you organize your entire business. You can't separate those two things.
No matter how convenient it is for us to reach out to people remotely, sometimes the most important task is to show up in person.
Plan your work and work your plan. Decide in advance exactly how you are going to get from where you are to where you want to go.
When you begin moving toward excellence, you will find very little competition. You're competing with only 20% of the population.
Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.
The more clear your vision of health, happiness and prosperity, the faster you move toward it and the faster it moves toward you.
Everybody has a need for speed and you actually make your product, or service, or services more attractive when you do them fast.
The more clearly defined and keenly desired your goals, the more of your natural creativity will be released for goal attainment.
Your current situations or problems have been sent to you to teach you valuable lessons for success and happiness. What are they?
Discipline yourself to find something positive in every situation every day. You attract positivity when you are positive within.
People create their own success by learning what they need to learn and then by practicing it until they become proficient at it.
My biggest hero was my mother. She told me every day that I could do or be anything. I knew it, I believed it, and I embraced it.
I say to people all the time, it is OK to fail. Some of the greatest successes in the history of America started out as failures.
Good grooming is integral and impeccable style is a must. If you don't look the part, no one will want to give you time or money.
You must maximize the probability that someone shows up at front door of your store or website and ends up with a solved problem.
Today, blood work and science are able to provide more of a movie of your health, identifying trends before they become an issue.
There is an essence of, when you are fearless, you become more creative, and the more fearless I became, the more creative I was.
Making an un-perfect decision is far, far better than not making a decision, which is the worst possible decision you could make.