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I believe there's plenty of market for each; we're talking about an ecosystem that is going to support billions of devices, so a competitive landscape is good for consumers, developers, and the platforms alike. Apple brings a smooth elegance to its devices and platform, with the best marketplace experience to boot. Google brings a higher volume of devices as well as a more diverse ecosystem to interact with. The real story here is that Microsoft is nowhere to be seen, ending a two-decade monopoly and creating biggest opportunity for software startups probably ever.

If people don't think the odds are against you, you're doing it wrong.

I'm obsessed with speed. I'm always asking myself, 'Why can't we do things faster? Why can't it happen more efficiently? Why is this requiring three meetings instead of one?'

Companies have never won. You're always either fighting for survival, or fighting for relevance.

Jeff Bezos is opening a retail store and owns a newspaper. Turns out everything we thought about the Internet is wrong.

Execute like there's no tomorrow, strategize like there will be.

I think people are always able to achieve more than they think they can. While that’s cliche, I don’t know if managers think about that enough. You have to set your sights extremely high.

Uber is a $3.5 billion lesson in building for how the world *should* work instead of optimizing for how the world *does* work

When you're doing something you're passionate about, stress becomes a featurenot a bug.

Entrepreneurship: 10% coach, 20% player, 30% cheerleader, 40% waterboy.

Better to be too early and have to try again, than be too late and have to catch up.

Innovation is hard because solving problems people didn't know they had & building something no one needs look identical at first.

That's already been tried before only means the first attempt got it wrong.

Why we do what we do: that moment when you get to see the future on your computer screen before the rest of the world.

Opportunity lives at the intersection of what people need tomorrow and can be just barely built today.

Start with the assumption that the best way to do something is not the way it's being done right now.

Startups often win because it's easier to see what comes next when you don't have to worry about maintaining what came last.

Better to be right about the trend and wrong about the implementation, than the other way around.

Focus too much on the near-term and you won't get tomorrow's customers, focus too much on the long-term and you won't get today's.

The 10% between 90% done to 100% done takes most of the time, causes most of the stress, but is all of the value.

The chance of failure is almost always better than the guarantee of never knowing.