When you are a stranger in a place, you notice things that you rapidly stop noticing when you become familiar (Location 120)

Note: Be a stranger

whenever you start with nothing, you can always shoot for the moon. You have nothing to lose. And the thing that happens is—when you sort of get something, it’s very easy to go into cover-your-ass mode, and then you become conservative (Location 284)

Note: Conservative after awin

“You never achieve what you want without falling on your face a few times.” (Location 474)

Note: Falling

he started NeXT with several members of the Macintosh team. “We’ll make a whole bunch of mistakes, but at least they’ll be new and creative ones,” he predicted. (Location 477)

Note: SJ

“If you really look closely,” Steve liked to say, “most overnight successes took a long time.” (Location 498)

Character is built not in good times, but in bad times; not in a time of plenty, but in a time of adversity (Location 587)

Note: Character building

I usually believe that if one group of people didn’t do something, within a certain number of years, the times would produce another group of people that would accomplish similar things (Location 731)

Note: Someone else will do it