Quotes

Don't ever make the mistake [of thinking] that you can design something better than what you get from ruthless massively parallel trial-and-error with a feedback cycle. That's giving your intelligence much too much credit.

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the steps.

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh.

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.

When your only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always got.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

If you're incompetent, you can't know you're incompetent. [...] the skills you need to produce a right answer are exactly the skills you need to recognize what a right answer is.

Whether you think you can, or you think you can't — you're right.

In seeking approval from people, you are giving them the power to judge you.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.

History shows us that the people who end up changing the world – the great political, social, scientific, technological, artistic, even sports revolutionaries – are always nuts, until they are right, and then they are geniuses.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

Do, or do not. There is no try.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

Building great things means taking risks. This can be scary and prevents most companies from doing the bold things they should. However, in a world that's changing so quickly, you're guaranteed to fail if you don't take any risks. We have another saying: The riskiest thing is to take no risks. We encourage everyone to make bold decisions, even if that means being wrong some of the time.