We can’t solve problems using the same thinking that we used when we created them.

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

Design is an agent of change, which can help us to make sense of what is happening and to turn it to our advantage.

If you can’t stand the heat, don’t tickle the dragon.

Give me a place to stand, and I will move the earth.

Nothing is easy. If you want to do nothing, that’s easy.

It’s so much easier to do something new than to do something well.

When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.

Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

They say the secret of success is being at the right place at the right time, but since you never know when the right time is going to be, I figure the trick is to find the right place and just hang around.

God gave us 2 ears and 1 mouth for a reason.

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented.

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.

The fact that others are bad does not imply that you are good.

It does not matter how slow you go so long as you do not stop.

You have undertaken to cheat me. I won’t sue you, for the law is too slow. I will ruin you.

Make no little plans.

Humility is the most underrated aspect of being an entrepreneur. Once your head gets too big, you’re cooked.

Being early and being wrong are sometimes not that different.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

If a ruler’s anger rises against you, do not leave your post; calmness can lay great offenses to rest.

Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss in enthusiasm.

He that can’t endure the bad will not live to see the good.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

You miss 100% of the shots you never take.

The past is never dead. It’s not even past.

If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.

Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.

There’s only one boss: the customer. He can fire everybody from the chairman on down simply by spending his money elsewhere.

If you presume, you are putting ‘P’ on your resume.

With Early Stage companies, it’s never one thing. It’s always one thing after another.

Be ready to revise any system, scrap any method, and abandon any theory, if the success of the job requires it.

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.

I have full confidence in your courage, devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full victory!

I believe that smart people working hard will eventually get lucky.

You want to learn from experience, but you want to learn from other people’s experience when you can.

Partners don’t pay each other, they help each other get paid.

Entrepreneurship exists in the tiny space between madness and genius; and, its journey requires a few cross border violations across both madness and genius to get to the final destination.

A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.

We’re not trying to entertain the critics… I’ll take my chances with the public.

There is nothing so depressing as boundless optimism.

In economics, things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then happen faster than you thought they could.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

It’s nice to be nominated but it’s better to win.

I’ve made a lot of mistakes. I don’t have a lot of regrets.

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you’re scared to death.

In preparing for battle, I have always found that plans are useless, but planning in indispensable.

Feed the strong, starve the weak. Lead with your strength and avoid protecting the weak – weak brands, weak products and weak people. Know your strengths and lead with them.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.

There is always a well-known solution to every human problem – neat, plausible, and wrong.

I see the light when I feel the heat.

Sleep on your big decisions and then be decisive.

By the time you get really good at this, you’ll be dead!

When the rate of change outside exceeds the rate of change inside, the end is in sight.

We was doin’ good till we blowed up!

The root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

A smooth sea never made for a skillful sailor.

A leader’s job is to have all the questions. You have to be incredibly comfortable looking like the dumbest person in the room.