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It’s important for a leader to hear about his blind spots on a regular basis so working on them is periodically top of mind.

Today’s polite, pleasant personality is, above all, a commercial personality. It is the salesman’s smile and hearty handshake, because the customer is always right and you should always keep the customer happy.

Video of Steve Jobs and team during the early days of NeXT.

We force so much structured work onto our young people that they lose all opportunity to take part in the arguably more important “unstructured work”, the tinkering and hacking that once made us the leaders of the industrial world.

Since writing is such a cognitively intense task, the key to becoming faster is to develop strategies to make writing literally less mind-blowing.

Progress in science and technology is stalling. The technology slowdown threatens not just our financial markets, but the entire modern political order, which is predicated on easy and relentless growth.

Apple wasn't built by a saint. It was built by an iron-fisted visionary.

The real prize is found not in a degree, a certificate, a brief taste of applause on a commemoration day, but in the deeper strength of soul, the wider range of wisdom, which the long discipline of unflagging effort has taught him.

There are three questions you have when you’re hiring a programmer (or anyone, for that matter): Are they smart? Can they get stuff done? Can you work with them?

Most entrepreneurs pursue the question, "How can I succeed?" From day one, Packard and Hewlett pursued a different question: "What can we contribute?"