People Quotes

Most of my ideas belonged to other people who never bothered to develop them.

The strength of the Constitution, lies in the will of the people to defend it.

Avoid excessive merriment. A mind in that state never becomes calm; it becomes fickle. Excessive merriment will always be followed by sorrow. Tears and laughter are near kin. People so often run from one extreme to the other.

Bless people when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing by helping to stamp out the false ego.

My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to make them better.

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.

It's not a faith in technology. It's faith in people.

We hire people who want to make the best things in the world.

Great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people.

It doesn't make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.

Management is about persuading people to do things they do not want to do, while leadership is about inspiring people to do things they never thought they could.

People don't know what they want until you show it to them. That's why I never rely on marketing research. Our task is to read things that are not yet on the page.

Most people do not ever pick up the phone. They never ask, and that is what separates the people that do things from the people that just dream about them. You have to act, and you have to be willing to fail. You have to be willing to crash and burn, because if you are afraid of failing, you will not get very far.

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.

Do your best at every job. Don't sleep! Success generates more success so be hungry for it. Hire good people with a passion for excellence.

When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off, you can often times arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions.

Kick-start your brain. New ideas come from watching something, talking to people, experimenting, asking questions and getting out of the office!

A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

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.

Be honest with yourself and with people always do everything on time. Never give up, go to your goals, even if all the bad. In this life, all really, you only need to do. The more I talk to people, the more I am convinced that in general they have one goal - to become the richest dead in the cemetery.