A company shouldn't get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn't last.
Above all else, align with customers. Win when they win. Win only when they win.
Advertising is the price you pay for unremakable thinking.
All a mom needs is Amazon, her Amex and an iPhone.
All businesses need to be young forever. If your customer base ages with you, you're Woolworth's.
Any business plan won't survive its first encounter with reality. The reality will always be different. It will never be the plan.
Are you lazy or just incompetent?
Base your strategy on things that won't change.
Be proud of your choices, not your gifts.
Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice.
Cultures, for better or worse, are very stable.
Determine what your customers need and work backwards.
E-mail has some magical ability to turn off the politeness gene in a human being.
Effective process is not bureaucracy. Bureaucracy is senseless process.
Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.
Everything you are comes from your choices.
Failure comes part and parcel with invention. It's not optional.
Go to bed early and wake up early. The morning hours are good.
I don't know about you, but most of my exchanges with cashiers are not that meaningful.
I wanted a woman who could get me out of a Third World prison. Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful.
If you can't feed a team with two pizzas, it's too large.
If you make customers unhappy in the physical world, they might each tell six friends. If you make customers unhappy on the Internet, they can each tell 6,000 friends.
If you never want to be criticized, for goodness' sake don't do anything new.
If you want to be inventive, you have to be willing to fail.
If you're competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering.
In Seattle you haven't had enough coffee until you can thread a sewing machine while it's running.
Invention is by its very nature disruptive. If you want to be understood at all times, then don't do anything new.
Invention requires a long-term willingness to be misunderstood.
It's not an experiment if you know it's going to work.
Maintain a firm grasp of the obvious at all times.
One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.
Our culture is friendly and intense, but if push comes to shove we'll settle for intense.
People loved their horses, too. But you don't keep riding your horse to work just because you love it.
People who were right a lot of the time were people who often changed their minds.
Read the Declaration of Independence to your children as a tradition every Fourth of July. Make sure they understand why the word 'pursuit' precedes the word 'happiness.'
The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, 'why not?'
The great thing about fact-based decisions is that they overrule the hierarchy.
The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they weren't thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about- they weren't putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home
The one thing that offends me the most is when I walk by a bank and see ads trying to convince people to take out second mortgages on their home so they can go on vacation. That's approaching evil.
The thing about inventing is you have to be both stubborn and flexible. The hard part is figuring out when to be which.
We are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet. That's where we are. We don't get our hair caught in it, but that's the level of primitiveness of where we are.
We are stubborn on vision. We are flexible on details.
We are willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time
We can't be in survival mode. We have to be in growth mode.
We change our tools and then our tools change us.
What's dangerous is not to evolve.
Work hard, have fun and make history.
You're not going to make Hemingway better by adding animations.
Your brand is formed primarily, not what your company says about itself, but what the company does.
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