If you keep your eye on the profit, you're going to skimp on the product. But if you focus on making really great products, then the profits will follow.

Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.

Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.

Details matter, it's worth waiting to get it right.

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.

You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.