A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere. A problem well stated is a problem half-solved. An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he’s in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots. An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn’t take his education too seriously. Believe [...]

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts. And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge. And you know, I’ve had great fun turning quite a lot of different industries on their head and making sure [...]

A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets. A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. [...]

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it. A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large. A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. A market is never saturated with a good product, but it [...]

A man should never neglect his family for business. All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable. All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have [...]

A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought. Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We’ll break out of it. It takes time. Beware of geeks bearing formulas. Chains of habit are too light to [...]