We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals.
The first follower is actually an underestimated form of leadership in itself. … The first follower is what transforms a lone nut into a leader.
Business is not about money. It's about making dreams come true for others and for yourself.
Whatever excites you, go do it. Whatever drains you, stop doing it.
Steve Jobs gave a small private presentation about the iTunes Music Store to some independent record label people. My favorite line of the day was when people kept raising their hand saying, "Does it do [x]?", "Do you plan to add [y]?". Finally Jobs said, "Wait wait - put your hands down. Listen: I know you have a thousand ideas for all the cool features iTunes could have. So do we. But we don't want a thousand features. That would be ugly. Innovation is not about saying yes to everything. It's about saying NO to all but the most crucial features.
Repeated psychology tests have proven that telling someone your goal makes it less likely to happen.
Customer service is the new marketing.
All you can usually say about a poem or a picture is, 'Look at it, listen to it. ' Whether you listen to a piece of music or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
I look a lot like my father when he was my age.
I felt my personal life was not what it should be. It had nothing to do with Mr. Show - I'm monstrously appreciative and understand what it did for me and to me - but after four years, I just felt like I needed to do something else. I guess I wanted to be in a different place, physically.
Health is the fastest growing failing business in western civilization.