Revolutionary Quotes

“Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life. LSD shows you that there’s another side to the coin, and you can’t remember it when it wears off, but you know it. It reinforced my sense of what was important—creating great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could.”

“Somewhere between the janitor and the CEO, reasons stop mattering.”

“You cannot mandate productivity, you must provide the tools to let people become their best.”

“There are times when you run a marathon and you wonder, Why am I doing this? But you take a drink of water, and around the next bend, you get your wind back, remember the finish line, and keep going.”

“If you live each day as it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right”

“We've gone through the operating system and looked at everything and asked how can we simplify this and make it more powerful at the same time.”

“I thought deeply about this. I ended up concluding that the worst thing that could possibly happen as we get big and as we get a little more influence in the world is if we change our core values and start letting it slide, I can't do that. I'd rather quit.”

“School was pretty hard for me at the beginning.”

“Innovation means saying 'no' to a thousand things.”

“It's rare that you see an artist in his 30s or 40s able to really contribute something amazing. Of course, there are some people who are innately curious, forever little kids in their awe of life, but they're rare.”

“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me.”

“You've probably had somebody punch you in the stomach and it knocks the wind of you and you can't breathe. That's how I felt.”

“The things I've done in my life have required a lot of yearsof work before they took off.”

“Some mistakes will be made along the way. That's good. Because some decisions are being made along the way. We'll find the mistakes. We'll fix them.”

“We don't settle for anything less than excellence.”

“You have to be burning with "an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right." If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.”

“The important point is to not just follow your passion but something larger than yourself.”

“You're missing it. This is not a one-man show. What's reinvigorating this company is two things: One, there's a lot of really talented people in this company who listened to the world tell them they were losers for a couple of years, and some of them were on the verge of starting to believe it themselves. But they're not losers. What they didn't have was a good set of coaches, a good plan. A good senior management team. But they have that now.”

“Ask for feedback from people with diverse backgrounds. Each one will tell you one useful thing. If you're at the top of the chain, sometimes people won't give you honest feedback because they're afraid. In this case, disguise yourself, or get feedback from other sources.”

“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”

“One of the failures of technology companies is that they build technologies thinking everything else will work out.”

“You can tell a lot about a person by who his or her heroes are.”

“The design of the Mac wasn't what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it's all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it.”

“I was lucky - I found what I love to do early in life.”

“We live in an information economy. The problem is that information's usually impossible to get, at least in the right place, at the right time.”