People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I’m actually as proud of the things we [Apple] haven’t done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.
Category Archives: Strategy
Wise Words: Mark Twain: majority
When you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to stop and reconsider.
Wise Words: Maureen Dowd
The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.
Wise Words: Frederic Laloux
Life is so complex, and events and circumstances change so fast, that setting a target is mostly guesswork. A year after it has been set, a target is, in most cases, just an arbitrary number—either so easy to reach as to be meaningless or so challenging that people must take shortcuts to meet the number, actions that will hurt the company in the long run.
Wise Words: Albert Schweitzer
I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be truly happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.
Wise Words: George Bernard Shaw
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
Wise Words: Ingrid Bengis
For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.
Wise Words: Joseph Campbell: life you planned
You must give up the life you had planned in order to have the life that is waiting for you.
Wise Words: Thomas Carruthers
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
Wise Words: John Ruskin
In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: they must be fit for it; they must not do too much of it; and they must have a sense of success in it.
