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Follow-up was the key to everything. Relentless follow-up. Relentless.

Michael Ovitz
Michael Ovitz

In life, the challenge is not so much to figure out how best to play the game. The challenge is to figure out what game you're playing.

Daniel Ek
Daniel Ek

You can diddle-daddle through life, and just kind of sleepwalk, and then die, or you can live life, you can embrace life, you can have big dreams, and go all in and find your passion.

Brad Jacobs
Brad Jacobs

[On not selling his business] If you lose your baby, you lose purpose, then you lose purpose in life.

Todd Graves
Todd Graves

We're all nerds who've spent the last 20 years of our lives just coding and making little things for the world, and the idea that you could teach AI how to go make things, and have everybody have an AI that can help them make things and feel the wonder of that, it's pretty sick.

Scott Wu
Scott Wu

Which problems am I passionate about solving? Which problems can I spend the next decade of my life fixing? Because if I'm not interested enough in it to spend a decade fixing it, it's probably not worth pursuing.

Daniel Ek
Daniel Ek

If you're not bound by conventional thinking you can come up with some clever new way of doing it.

Michael Dell
Michael Dell

The best story always wins. The best principles for a great story are originality, hardship, and transformation.

Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Patrick O'Shaughnessy

We build on other people's ideas. An innovation is actually taking two or more things that were already well known and putting it together in a new way.

Daniel Ek
Daniel Ek

The people that make things that are a reflection of themselves — that's the most sustainable form of creation.

Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Patrick O'Shaughnessy
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