Motivational Status in English

In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design.

The greatest artists like Dylan, Picasso, and Newton risked failure.

You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.

Creativity is just connecting things.

Let's go invent tomorrow rather than worrying about what happened yesterday.

It's not the customer's job to know what they want.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

Remember, there are no shortcuts to anywhere worth going.

We hire people who want to make the best things in the world.

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So, you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.

Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people.

It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.