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"For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something."
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"If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on."
"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work."
"I'm as proud of many of the things we haven't done as the things we have done. Innovation is saying no to a thousand things."
"To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines."
"It's not the tools that you have faith in. Tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not."
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