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" The most important thing is that you hire people who complement you and are better than you in specific areas. Good people hire people better than themselves. So A players hire A+ players. "

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" My recommendation for SEO is very simple. It's Write Good Stuff. In my mind, Google is in the business of finding good stuff. It has thousands of the smartest people in the world, spending billions of dollars to find the good stuff. All you have to do is write the good stuff; you don't need to trick it. "

" I'm a lousy predictor of the future. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" A large social-media presence is important because it's one of the last ways to conduct cost-effective marketing. Everything else involves buying eyeballs and ears. Social media enables a small business to earn eyeballs and ears. "

" 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. "

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

" A simple summary of my life is that my parents worked very hard so that I could have a great education, and I took that education and worked very hard to get where I am. I would like my kids' lives to be exactly the same. "

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

" Entrepreneurship is not for everyone. "

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" I think that no one, or very few, are born as good presenters. It's a skill that you learn. The key is the 10/20/30 rule: 10 slides given in 20 minutes using no font smaller than 30 points. If people just adhered to this rule, they would double or triple the quality of their presentations. "

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

" 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. "

" As communicators and marketers, people are so accustomed to thinking from the 'top down.' Finding the great analyst or the famous journalist who will endorse what you do and tell the rest of the world to go and buy your product. "

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

" Evangelism is selling a dream. "

" At the end of my life, is it better to say that I empowered people to make great stuff, or that I died with a net worth of $10 billion? Obviously I'm picking the former, although I would not mind both. "

" What I lack in talent, I compensate with my willingness to grind it out. That's the secret of my life. "

" Most venture capitalists won't read a business plan unless the entrepreneur is introduced to them by a contact. "

" Patience is the art of concealing your impatience. "

" I merely consider myself a father, and one role of a father is to provide financial resources for his family. "

" 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. "

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

" If you make money, you might not make meaning. "

" A crash is when your competitor's program dies. When your program dies, it is an 'idiosyncrasy'. "

" It doesn't matter whether the Dow is 5000 or 50,000. If you're an entrepreneur, there is no bad time to start a company. "

" 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.' "

" I don't want to make more friends. I have four kids, I have plenty of friends, and all the personal relationships I need. "