Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
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Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
You're already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what's next.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.
Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.
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.
It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.
If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others... I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.
There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.
Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
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