Everyone you just named, all those successful people, they were all-in. They were all-in. They were 100% in. They weren't like partly in. They're in. They're 100% in, and completely focused, and single-mindedly concentrated on executing the plan.
You can't talk to everybody the same way. You have to look at who you're talking to and decide just how deep you're going to go.
I stood up and told the company that five years from now, we will have a new competitor, and that new competitor is going to be in every business that we are in, except they're going to be faster, more efficient, and more capable. And they're going to put us out of business. And the only way that we're going to prevent that is we are going to become that company.
Intuition isn't just airy-fairy. It's not a feeling. Your brain has been fed with hundreds of different things, and from that, you make a decision. You can't rationalize it.
Life's work is a lifelong quest to build something for others that expresses who you are.
If you start cutting a little bit here to save a penny, and a little bit here, and a little bit here, it's death by a thousand cuts. Then one day your product is not craveable.
You know what I see as the most common core of all the people that are successful? They're never satisfied.
A lot of really good innovators are innovators because they experienced the problem before others did.
I don't want there to be an end to ambition, or enthusiasm, or curiosity, or the things that drive me.
There is a part of me that doesn't want to show up for anything, and I have to overcome that every day.
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