martinjordan’s most loved Quotables

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.

It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.

We shouldn’t live everyday like it’s our last, but like it’s our first. Be curious. Be open-minded.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains of the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

Spend your life doing what you love.
Be focused and disciplined.
Collaborate.

We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.

What you say that is negative is an invitation to receive just that.

Everything’s impossible until somebody does it.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm

Instructions for making a speech: Be sincere; be brief; be seated.

It comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much.

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.

You make your own luck. Every single minute of every day.

Think of it as you want it, not as it is!

Hire great people and give them freedom to be awesome.