The greatest thing Jobs designed was his business. Apple imagined and executed definite multi-year plans to create new products and distribute them e… - Peter Thiel

since he started Apple in 1976, Jobs saw that you can change the world through careful planning, not by listening to focus group feedback

Forget “minimum viable products” — ever since he started Apple in 1976, Jobs saw that you can change the world through careful planning, not by listening to focus group feedback or copying others’ successes.

But the most important lesson to learn from Jobs has nothing to do with aesthetics. The greatest thing Jobs designed was his business. Apple imagined and executed definite multi-year plans to create new products and distribute them effectively.

The startup uniform encapsulates a simple but essential principle: everyone at your company should be different in the same way — a tribe of like-minded people fiercely devoted to the company’s mission.

many entrepreneurs focus only on short-term growth. They have an excuse: growth is easy to measure, but durability isn’t.

The best thing I did as a manager at PayPal was to make every person in the company responsible for doing just one thing. Every employee’s one thing was unique, and everyone knew I would evaluate him only on that one thing. I had started doing this just to simplify the task of managing people. But then I noticed a deeper result: defining roles reduced conflict. Most fights inside a company happen when colleagues compete for the same responsibilities.