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My Favorite Quote About Entrepreneurship Is That To Understand An Entrepreneur, You Should Study A Juvenile Delinquent. They're Both Saying: "this Sucks And I'm Going To Do It Another Way." You Have To Want To Break The Rules And Prove That Your Way Works.

Going Back To A Simpler Life Based On Living By Sufficiency Rather Than Excess Is Not A Step Backward. Rather, Returning To A Simpler Way Allows Us To Regain Our Dignity, Puts Us In Touch With The Land, And Makes Us Value Human Contact Again.

We Grow By Letting The Customer Tell Us. So When The Customer Tells Us That They're Frustrated, That They Just Got Their Catalogue And We're Already Out Of A Product They Wanted, Then It Tells Me That We're Not Making Enough. We Let The Customer Tell Us Instead Of Creating An Artificial Demand For Our Products. Any Time You're Making Products That People Don't Need, You're At The Mercy Of The Economy, You're At The Mercy Of Whatever Is Going On. So We Tried To Avoid That Situation.

Hiring People With Diverse Backgrounds Brings In A Flexibility Of Thought And Openness To New Ways Of Doing Things, As Opposed To Hiring Clones From Business Schools Who Have Been Taught A Codified Way Of Doing Business.

The Most Important Thing Is To Get The Fish In Quickly And Leave It In The Water. Forget The Hero Pose.