Good leaders have a generosity gene.
In Seattle you haven't had enough coffee until you can thread a sewing machine while it's running.
Things never go smoothly.
My view is there's no bad time to innovate.
Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful.
If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.
I wanted to project myself forward to age 80 and say, ‘OK, I’m looking back on my life. I want to minimise the number of regrets I have. ’ And I knew that when I was 80, I was not going to regret having tried this. I was not going to regret trying to participate in this thing called the Internet that I thought was going to be a really big deal. I knew that if I failed, I wouldn’t regret that. But I knew the one thing I might regret is not ever having tried. I knew that that would haunt me every day.
The only absurdity in which I find equally immense compassion and morality is Christianity - though the compassion is outlandish and the morality is blemished.
What if trials of this life, the rain, the storms, the hardest nights, are Your mercies in disguise?
People say love can be developed, but in the end, the only person you love is yourself. That's why you choose to love someone who can please you the most.
Did you know Richard Nixon is the only president whose formal portrait was painted by a police sketch artist?