Hiring

• "Disproportionate players get paid disproportionally"
• "You have to fall in love with the process of becoming great" - Blake Griffith
• "Big challenges attract big talent"
• "No team larger than what you can feed with two pizzas" - Jeff Bezos
• "Ego builds blind spots"
• "A death spiral of mediocrity"
• "Real artists ship" - Steve Jobs

Data   

• "In God we trust, all others bring data" - W. Edwards Deming
• "The plural of anecdote is data" - Raymond Wolfinger

Business

• "Revenue solves all known problems"
• "There is no such thing as a minor lapse in integrity" - Tom Peters
• "Focus on the user and all else will follow" - Google
• "Underpromise and overdeliver"
• "Giving the customer what he wants is less important than giving him what he doesn't yet know he wants" - Google

Work

• "80% of sucess is showing up, every day" - Woody Allen
• "Burn-out isn't caused by working too hard, but by resentment at having to give up what really matters to you" - Marissa Myers
• "Good judgement comes from experience and a lot of that  comes from bad judgement"

Design

• Instead of "think different" Larry Page says "think 10x bigger"
• "The human race builds most nobly when limitations were greatest" - Frank Lloyd Wright
• "Creativity loves constraint" - Marissa Myers
• "A problem well put is a problem half solved" - John Dewey
• "Continuous product excellence"
• "Optimism is an essential ingredient for innovation" - Robert Noyce

Competition

• "To be the best, you have to beat the best" - Adam Vinatieri