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“A Possible Declining Trend in Worldwide Innovation,
Man has already climbed past the trunk of the tree and gone out on its major limbs, mining most of the really big, game-changing ideas—the wheel, electricity, the airplane, the telephone, the transistor. Now we’re left dangling near the end of the branches at the top of the tree and mostly just refining past inventions.
You don’t know what you don’t know. You realize there are all these things out there.”
Do or die but don’t give up.”
what are the things that affect how a team functions. The first obvious assumption would be that other people will behave like you. But that’s not true. Even if they would like to behave like you, they don’t necessarily have all the assumptions or information that you have in your mind. So, if I know a certain set of things, and I talk to a replica of myself but only communicate half the information, you can’t expect that the replica would come to the same conclusion. You have to put yourself in a position where you say, ‘Well, how would this sound to them, knowing what they know?’”
The PayPal Wars: Battles with eBay, the Media, the Mafia, and the Rest of Planet Earth in 2004
“That’s my lesson for taking a vacation: vacations will kill you.”
he expected the revenue in ten years to be ten million dollars a day and that every day we were slower to achieve our goals was a day of missing out on that money.”
When organizations acknowledge & implement it, their innovation will skyrocket
He will pick the most aggressive time schedule imaginable assuming everything goes right, and then accelerate it by assuming that everyone can work harder.”
He will outmaneuver you, outthink you, and out-execute you.
People who await guidance or detailed instructions languish. The same goes for workers who crave feedback.
If the rules are such that you can’t make progress, then you have to fight the rules.
the vehicle handled like a sports car, drove as smoothly as a Rolls-Royce, held as much as a Chevy Equinox, and was more efficient than a Toyota Prius.
I want it ASAP :)
The Model S was not just the best electric car; it was best car,
There would be no Tesla to talk about today were it not for Musk’s money, marketing savvy, chicanery, engineering smarts, and indomitable spirit.
