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Fair use is important to innovators as well as consumers. It's fair use that allowed the VCR to innovate on top of the television.
When what you do and care about is aligned with what the market wants and cares about, you've created a recipe for career success.
I want the great masses of my people to take a greater pride in their personal appearance and to give their hair proper attention.
You are as good as your product. When you are used and loved by everyone, your brand equity is high. When you are not, you're not.
In my early career, there were more negative lessons than positive ones. But I don't think I was looking for the positives enough.
For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
I think it's good to have different locations for different modes you want to be in throughout the day, and to keep them separate.
Today, when you combine the web with the iPad, you have the most advanced medium for human thought and communication ever created.
Africa was perceived - it still is to some extent - as a place which is very difficult to do business in. I don't share that view.
A tendency to focus on art over business has meant that too many designers have failed to make the most of their critical acclaim.
If you borrowed money and went to a college where the education didn't create any value, that is potentially a really big mistake.
Tomorrow when you come to work, if it doesn't make the customer happy, move the business forward, and save us money - don't do it.
There's a lot of people in the world that would love to trade places with American citizens, and we are very fortunate to be here.
So benevolent, enlightened, wise dictators are the most efficient form of government. The problem is what comes afterwards, right?
We inside Diesel are the first consumers of our advertising. We make ad campaigns for our own amusement - that's why they succeed.
There are still too many people out there who are claustrophobic. On easyCruise, we are going to open up as many cabins as we can.
Not all startups are alike. One of the key ways they differ is in the relationship between a startup's new product and its market.
In corporations, the penalty for repeated failure on known tasks is being reassigned to other tasks or asked to leave the company.
You'll see more and more perfection of that - computer as servant. But the next thing is going to be computer as a guide or agent.
I think the biggest innovations of the 21st century will be at the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is beginning.
Our friends up north spend over five billion dollars on research and development and all they seem to do is copy Google and Apple.
It's not like Windows users don't have any power. I think they are happy with Windows, and that's an incredibly depressing thought
What this means is that people are seeing a stable business, which is good, and a business that is in control, which is also good.
I grew up in a socialist country. And I have seen what that does to people. There is no hope, no freedom. No pride in achievement.
I sometimes compare my brainstorming on paper to the drilling of oil wells. The only way to strike oil is to drill a lot of wells.
Imagine if we could create the most just workplace in the world. We would naturally be a magnet for all the great minds out there.
We did a year of Uber in San Francisco before we went to a second city. You get those processes down, then you really get started.
Big companies such as Google and Facebook buy startups at ridiculously high prices - not for their products, but for their people.
Writing a book is usually a full-time job that takes years. I didn't have years. So I decided to crowdsource content for the book.
Innovation in tech favors the naive and the stubborn. If you are too rational you won't tackle problems that others once failed at.
Any business or enterprise that shaves away loneliness is going to last forever. And like it or not but we've got a lonely society.
There are a lot of dark sides to success, but the light side of it is the ability to be opportunistic, and to be able to do things.
Your own level of self-acceptance is determined largely by how well you feel you are accepted by the important people in your life.
Self-discipline is a great time-saver; it is the ability to make yourself work on only those things that are most important to you.
To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions
Every startup has a chance to change the world, by bringing not just a new product, but an entirely new institution into existence.
Meritocracy is a good thing. Whenever possibly, people should be judged based on their work and results, not superficial qualities.
When you have one million dollars, you're a lucky person. When you have 10 million dollars, you've got trouble, a lot of headaches.
The reality is: when you're slouched over, not only are you not using the full potential of your brain, but you look untrustworthy.
I only take causes or write about things that I am passionate about, and I do it with a certain flair and a sort of wink and a nod.
If you build a great product or service, people will talk about it. But it starts with having something that's worth talking about.
We've got thousands of investors counting on us. And we're a team of thousands of employees all counting on each other. That's fun.
In the entertainment business, everybody is desperately insecure, and the guys in Silicon Valley seem to be slightly overconfident.
You have to think, 'What can I do to help my team develop, grow, and become better performers?' rather than, 'What's in it for me?'
A lot of web companies will take a short-term approach and sell to an incumbent and don't end up living up to their full potential.
When I was starting out, being a young entrepreneur was not fashionable. Parents would ask, 'When are you going to get a real job?'
I think 2012 is the year when consumers all around the world start saying no to feature phones and start saying yes to smartphones.
My job is such that I get to run new things every day, and I get to run new markets and new technologies. I enjoy that quite a bit.
Women have plans for themselves, for their children, about their home, the meals. They have a Vision. A man wants to enjoy himself.
I'm very pro-science and pro-technology; I believe that these have been key drivers of progress in the world in the last centuries.