Steve Jobs — "I don't think I've ever worked so hard on something and had it fail completely."

"The greatest artists like Dylan, Picasso and Newton risked failure. And if we want to be great, we've got to risk it too."

"People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully."

"My job is not to be easy on people; my job is to make them better."

"It's more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy."

"People say, 'Oh, God, if he were still alive, he would have done this, done that.' No. He would have done exactly what he did. He would have gone out and gotten a job."