“I saw that to do exceptionally well you have to push your limits and that, if you push your limits, you will crash and it will hurt a lot. You will think you have failed—but that won’t be true unless you give up.”
― Principles: Life and Work
― Principles: Life and Work
“Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice."
[Stanford University commencement speech, 2005]”
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[Stanford University commencement speech, 2005]”
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“Listening to uninformed people is worse than having no answers at all.”
― Principles: Life and Work
― Principles: Life and Work
“Having the basics—a good bed to sleep in, good relationships, good food, and good sex—is most important, and those things don’t get much better when you have a lot of money or much worse when you have less. And the people one meets at the top aren’t necessarily more special than those one meets at the bottom or in between.”
― Principles: Life and Work
― Principles: Life and Work
“I just want to be right—I don’t care if the right answer comes from me.”
― Principles: Life and Work
― Principles: Life and Work
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