People Quotes

Companies must have a noble cause, and it's the leaders job to transform that noble cause into such an inspiring vision, that it will attract the most talented people in the world to want to join it.

I hate it when people call themselves 'entrepreneurs' when what they're really trying to do is launch a startup and then sell of go public, so they can cash in and move on. They're unwilling to do the work it takes to build a real company, which is the hardest work in business.

Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet they know how to drive a car. You don't have to study physics to understand the laws of motion to drive a car. You don't have to understand any of this stuff to use Macintosh.

I'm one of those people that think Thomas Edison and the light bulb changed the world more than Karl Marx ever did.

A lot of time, people don't do great things becoz' great things really aren't expected of them.

Marketing is about values. It's a complicated and noisy world, and we're not going to get a chance to get people to remember much about us. No company is. So we have to be really clear about what we want them to know about us.

Every good product I've ever seen is because a group of people cared deeply about making something wonderful that they and their friends wanted. They wanted to use it themselves.

Ask for feedback from people with diverse backgrounds. Each one will tell you one useful thing. If you're at the top of the chain, sometimes people won't give you honest feedback because they're afraid. In this case, disguise yourself, or get feedback from other sources.

When you're in a startup, the first ten people will determine whether the company succeeds or not.

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.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.

The trouble with most people is that they quit before they start.

People are not remembered by how few times they fail, but by how often they succeed. Every wrong step is another step forward.

I try not to invent things that people don't need.

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.

People's good deeds we write in water. The evil deeds are etched in brass.

There are three people in yourself:Who people think you are, Who you think you are, and who you really are.