Mitchell Wakefield > Mitchell's Quotes

“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”
― Steve Jobs

“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
― Steve Jobs

“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.”
― Steve Jobs

“Software is eating the world”
― Marc Andreessen

“Good designers never start by trying to solve the problem given to them: they start by trying to understand what the real issues are.
As a result, rather than converge upon a solution, they diverge, studying people and what they are trying to accomplish, generating idea after idea after idea. It drives managers crazy. Managers want to see progress: designers seem to be going backward when they are given a precise problem and instead of getting to work, they ignore it and generate new issues to consider, new directions to explore. And not just one, but many.”
― Don Norman

“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”
― Bill Gates

“If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.”
― Bill Gates

“A goal without a plan is just a wish.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Don’t follow your passion, follow your talent.”
― Scott Galloway, The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google

“The Law of Serendipity: Lady Luck favors the one who tries”
― Barbara Oakley, A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science

“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.”
― Ayn Rand

“Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water, and when you're tired, go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand.”
― Bruce Lee