Art Quotes

Contentment is natural wealth; luxury is artificial poverty.

I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart.

I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year. It's very character-building.

Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them.

My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other's kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other, and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. That's how I see business: great things in business are never done by one person; they're done by a team of people.

I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.

You've got to start with the customer experience and work backward to the technology.

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.

When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off, you can oftentimes arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions.

Real artists ship.

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

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.