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" Smart, well-meaning people get it wrong when they start believing that the world owes them something and that the rules are different for them. "

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" Coming from the U.S., you tend to look at one homogeneous market with 350 million people. But in Europe, every country has its own customs and laws. "

" The right algorithm is to put off seeking funds for as long as physically possible. And in an ideal world, a startup would never have to seek funds at all. "

" A 50-year-old company can innovate as well as two guys/gals in a garage. "

" I started my career counting diamonds and schlepping gold jewelry around the world. The jewelry business is a very, very tough business - tougher than the computer business. You truly have to understand how to take care of your customers. "

" If you're an entrepreneur and you think that the president makes a difference to your business, you should stay at your current job. "

" If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society's heroes. "

" The most powerful way to convince the interviewer that you can do the job is to show how much you already know about the industry, the company, and the products/services of the company. In other words, enchant the interviewer with how much you already know. "

" Entitlement is the opposite of enchantment. "

" I do have a peripatetic and active intellectual curiosity. "

" What you learn in school is the opposite of what happens in the real world. In school, you're always worried about minimums. You have to reach 20 pages or you have to have so many slides or whatever. Then you get out in the real world and you think, 'I have to have a minimum of 20 pages and 50 slides.' "

" I don't take myself that seriously. I'm a pragmatist. "

" I've been all over the world meeting with companies and startups and entrepreneurs. And I tell you, they are more similar than different. "

" Different parts of the world have different attitudes to failure. Arguably, it may take more courage to be an entrepreneur in Sydney, or Paris, or London, or Japan, or Singapore... but an entrepreneur sees the world for what it could be, not what it is. "

" Patience is the art of concealing your impatience. "

" It's easy to say that entrepreneurs will create jobs and big companies will create unemployment, but this is simplistic. The real question is who will innovate. "

" I would like my kids to inherit a world where people succeed because of merit and hard work, not entitlement, and where people accept others for what they are and not try to change them. "

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" Don't worry, be crappy. Revolutionary means you ship and then test... Lots of things made the first Mac in 1984 a piece of crap - but it was a revolutionary piece of crap. "

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" I have developed a Zen-like approach to the operating systems that people use: 'When you're ready, the right operating system will appear in your life.' "

" Good people hire people better than themselves. So A players hire A+ players. But others hire below their skills to make themselves look good. So B players hire C players. C players hire D players, etc. "

" My perspective is this: my allegiance is to the best product for my needs. For a computer, this means Macintosh. For phone and tablet, this means Android. "

" Companies in Europe should stop trying to do the U.S. version of a European idea. "

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" Every day, I get five pieces of hate mail: Tweets or hate emails. "

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" A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent. "