You don't delegate. You hire great people. You help them in doing it. If they do it better than you, then you can back off.
A lot of really good innovators are innovators because they experienced the problem before others did.
I want all A-players around me. I want people whose relationship with me I value so much that if it was terminated, I would be lost.
I love the idea in weightlifting of progressive overload — always a little bit harder, a little bit more. Go to failure, go to failure, go to failure. The beautiful thing about life is you don't know where that's going to take you.
When you set a goal, you do it to success or failure, but you don't stop.
The most interesting people are the most interested.
The more it was turned down, the more encouraged I became.
I don't know that I'm good. I know I'm different. But I have this sort of insane belief that I can get good if I try hard enough.
You know you've found your principle when it starts informing literally every decision you make every day with your time.
You didn’t even have to be smart. You had to have good follow-up. If you followed up, it kind of gave that extra point on the smart side of the scale.
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