Great leaders don’t create followers—they create more leaders.

You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress simultaneously.

Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

The only way to succeed is to have a product that is really, really good.

So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.