“ Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. People think it’s this veneer — that the designers are handed this box and told, ‘Make it look good!’ That’s not what we think design is. It’s not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works. ”
Steve Jobs (via mikehudack)
“ The only way 100 people can ever build a larger company than one that has more than 8,000 people — that’s what Expedia has — is by hiring Olympic-quality, unbelievable all stars of technology. My favorite metric is revenue per employee. ”
Paul English of Kayak
“ Virality is something that has to be engineered from the beginning… and it’s harder to create virality than it is to create a good product. The reason that over $150 billion is spent on US advertising each year is because virality is so hard. If virality was easy, there would be no advertising industry. ”
“ If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success. ”
“ I spend most of my day writing. I write everything on our website. Communicating clearly is my top priority. ”
“ You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. ”
Buckminster Fuller (via zachklein, oibloggerhq)
“ In a startup, things seem great one moment and hopeless the next. And by next, I mean a couple hours later. ”
“ I’ve had the experience of being on top and riding the roller coaster down again, nearly to the bottom. You know, if you economize and don’t buy new airplanes or long-range jets, or that sort of thing, you can get by on a billion or two. ”
“ My research revealed that lucky people generate good fortune via four basic principles. They are skilled at creating and noticing chance opportunities, make lucky decisions by listening to their intuition, create self-fulfilling prophesies via positive expectations, and adopt a resilient attitude that transforms bad luck into good. ”
Richard Wiseman (via bijan)
