"If everything you try works, you aren't trying hard enough."
"Most of what I learned as an entrepreneur was by trial and error."
"One thing a leader does is to remove the stigma of mistakes."
"With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly."
"I remember the difficulty we had in the beginning replacing magnetic cores in memories and eventually we had both cost and performance advantages. But it wasn't at all clear in the beginning."
"No physical quantity can continue to change exponentially forever. Your job is delaying forever."
"The technology at the leading edge changes so rapidly that you have to keep current after you get out of school. I think probably the most important thing is having good fundamentals."
"If you'd asked me in 1980 what the big impact of microprocessors would be, I probably would have missed the PC. If you asked me in 1990 what was important, I probably would have missed the Internet."
"It is extremely unlikely that anyone coming out of school with a technical degree will go into one area and stay there. Today's students have to look forward to the excitement of probably having three or four careers."
"Make it a part of what you do, remain grounded in your work. Look for innovative solutions."
"I guess one thing I’ve learned is once you’ve made a successful prediction, avoid making another one. I’ve avoided opportunities to predict the next 10 or 50 years."
"Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough."
"I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress."
"Figuring out what the next big trend is tells us what we should focus on."
"When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power."
"The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks."
"Once you have a product that you are happy with, you the need to centralize things to continue growth."
"By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent."
"When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power."
"If you're always under the pressure of real identity, I think that is somewhat of a burden."
"I will only hire someone to work directly for me if I would work for that person. It's a pretty good test."
"Bill Gates has always been a mentor and inspiration for me even before I knew him. Just growing up, I admired how Microsoft was mission-focused."
"I look at Google and think they have a strong academic culture. Elegant solutions to complex problems."
"As abhorrent as some of this content can be, I do think that it gets down to this principle of giving people a voice."
"Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they're thinking and have their voice be heard."
"It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket."
"Starting and growing a business is as much about the innovation, drive and determination of the people who do it as it is about the product they sell."
"It’s very important to like the people you work with, otherwise life [and] your job is gonna be quite miserable."
"It is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary."
"When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor."
"No, I don’t ever give up. I’d have to be dead or completely incapacitated."
"Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up."
"People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working."
"People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else."
"If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not."
"One of the biggest mistakes we made was trying to automate things that are super easy for a person to do, but super hard for a robot to do."
"Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death."
"Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster."
"The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur."
"I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better."
"Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough."
"A founder is not a job, it’s a role, an attitude."
"You can worry about the competition, or you can focus on what’s ahead of you and drive fast."
"You don’t have to start from scratch to do something interesting."
"It’s empowering to be asked to look at what’s possible, not told how to do it."
"Starting anything is a roller coaster with the highest highs and lowest lows."
"Short term satisfaction will never lead to something timeless."
"Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect."
"Expect the unexpected. And whenever possible, be the unexpected."
"I’ve always been fascinated by cities and how they work. And I taught myself how to program so I can understand how the city works."
"Twitter has been my life’s work in many senses. It started with a fascination with cities and how they work, and what’s going on in them right now."
"'Luck' is recognizing when the situation encourages build out and execution."
"The greatest lesson that I learned in all of this is that you have to start. Start now, start here, and start small. Keep it Simple."
"Everyone has an idea. But it’s really about executing the idea and attracting other people to help you work on the idea."
"When you have a stable ground to walk on, you understand how you’re moving, and how you’re growing, and how you’re building off it."
"The strongest thing you can cultivate as an entrepreneur is to not rely on luck but cultivating an ability to recognize fortunate situations when they are occurring."
"What inspires me the most is community driving bitcoin. It reminds me of the early internet."
"My grandfather looked at me, and after a bit of silence, he gently and calmly said, “Jeff, one day you’ll understand that it’s harder to be kind than clever."
"I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying."
"If you're doing anything interesting in the world, you are going to have critics. You can't stop it. Move forward. It's not worth losing any sleep over."
"As a company, one of our greatest cultural strengths is accepting the fact that if you’re going to invent, you’re going to disrupt."
"In the end, we are our choices."
"If we can keep our competitors focused on us while we stay focused on the customer, ultimately we'll turn out all right."
"Invention is by its very nature disruptive. If you want to be understood at all times, then don't do anything new."
"Mr. Bezos, can you even spell ‘profit’?” Brokaw asked, highlighting the fact that Amazon was hemorrhaging money as it grew. “Sure,” Bezos replied, “P-R-O-P-H-E-T."
"As the famed investor Benjamin Graham said, “In the short term, the stock market is a voting machine, in the long term, it’s a weighing machine."
"People who love all fields of knowledge are the ones who can best spot the patterns that exist across nature"
"When something bad happens you have three choices. You can either let it define you, let it destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you."
"So, the four elements of high standards as we see it: they are teachable, they are domain specific, you must recognize them, and you must explicitly coach realistic scope."
"In the end, we are our choices. Build yourself a great story."
"Your first projects aren't the greatest things in the world, and they may have no money value, they may go nowhere, but that is how you learn - you put so much effort into making something right if it is for yourself."
"My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers."
"The best things that capture your imagination are ones you hadn't thought of before and that aren't talked about in the news all the time."
"If you try to make such projects, unseen by others, as perfect as any human could, you'll develop skills that other professionals don't have."
"You know what, Steve Jobs is real nice to me. He lets me be an employee and that's one of the biggest honors of my life."
"I just believe that the way that young people's minds develop is fascinating. If you are doing something for a grade or salary or a reward, it doesn't have as much meaning as creating something for yourself and your own life."
"I have always respected education, which is why I actually went back secretly and taught school for eight years."
"If I designed a computer with 200 chips, I tried to design it with 150. And then I would try to design it with 100. I just tried to find every trick I could in life to design things real tiny."
"I read Google News and use NetNewsWire to keep up with general and tech news."
"It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books."
"There are good things I see on Samsung phones that I wish were in my iPhone. I wish Apple would use them and could use them, and I don't know if Samsung would stop us."
"Don't worry that you can't seem to come up with sure billion dollar winners at first. Just do projects for yourself for fun. You'll get better and better."
"There are many powerful men and women in mobile. I'm fortunate to be part of that group. But by no means do I think I'm the most powerful person."
"If you step back and take a holistic look, I think any reasonable person would say Android is innovating at a pretty fast pace and getting it to users."
"Good companies do whatever it takes to make sure apps are great and don't hesitate to add features."
"The right moral compass is trying hard to think about what customers want."
"Things like Whatsapp are a great example of success that others have had on Android, which we see as welcome innovation on the platform."
"Computing is evolving beyond phones, and people are using it in context across many scenarios, be it in their television, be it in their car, be it something they wear on their wrist or even something much more immersive."
"When Larry and Sergey founded Google Search, one of the things that struck me is that it was available for everyone to use. We deeply desire our services to work for everyone. And that inherently means we have to work with partners. That is the thesis underlying everything we do."
"Wear your failures as a badge of honor."
"A person who is happy is not happy because everything is right in his life, he is happy because his attitude towards everything in his life is right."
"India has been, has long been, an exporter of talent to tech companies. But it is in India that’s now undergoing its own revolution."
"It is important to follow your dreams and heart. Do something that excites you."
"As a leader, it is important to not just see your success but focus on the success of others."
"Focus on education is a big strength. I want to see young people focus on creativity and take more risks."
"If you don’t fail sometimes, you are not being ambitious enough."
