“People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully.”
“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what matters to me.”
“Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.”
“We are more easily persuaded, in general, by the reasons we ourselves discover than by those which are given to us by others.”
“Everyone who’s ever taken a shower has an idea. It’s the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it that makes a difference.”
“As much as anything, good design says that somebody is taking this object very seriously.”
“The details are not the details. They make the design.”
“A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.”
“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”
“Elections belong to the people. It is their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.”