These are some of our favourite quotes and passages that we’ve collected over the years that we find inspiring or remind us of the types of challenges we need to keep for ourselves to continue to strive for greatness.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
Happiness is like a skill to be learned and practiced, not a character trait.
I never lose. I either win or learn.
We’re just in experimental phase right now. As long as we’re in that type of phase, it’s a crazy time. You know we’ll get there (profitability) and get there fast. But the ideas that are not out there yet, and the companies that will be behind them, might be the real winners.
There’s nothing like setting a goal and accomplishing it. The road to achieve that goal is never straight. It has twists and turns, and at times you feel like you can’t pull it off. When you finally accomplish that goal, you feel a sense of accomplishment and self-worth that really can’t be beat.
If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.
There are no old roads to new directions.
A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.
If you tell me, it’s an essay. If you show me, it’s a story.
The absence of conflict is apathy, not harmony.
I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
The biggest risk in innovation lies in sticking too closely to your plans.
Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.
Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion; you must set yourself on fire.
Most use technology to define the function. We use function to drive the technology.
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Dialogue is a process of genuine interaction through which human beings listen to each other deeply enough to be changed by what they learn.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.
You’re only given a small spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Making the simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.
Progress always involves risk. You can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first.
We cannot solve a problem by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
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