Steve Jobs

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

Don’t be trapped by dogma-which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

If you haven’t found it yet keep looking.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

But until a person can say deeply and honestly, ‘I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday’, that person cannot say, ‘I choose otherwise’.

Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humour, and some style.

Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is the ability to act effectively, in spite of fear.

Sometimes you find out what you are supposed to be doing by doing the things you are not supposed to do.

I was afraid to show you this 300 acres that I just purchased that I’m building my first community on – my first five properties on – because I felt like it would be shut down.

Life is about growing and evolving. I feel like my life has been in stages, and the stages I went through when I was younger allowed me to grow into the man I am today.

If you’re going through hell, keep going.

Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.

Keep on trying… each failure is one step closer to a success.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.