focus Quotes

It is far more important to be able to hit the target than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger.

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

A lot of people are focused on taking over the world or doing the biggest thing and getting the most users. I think part of making a difference and doing something cool is focusing intensely.

Open Graph is a language for structuring content and sharing that goes on in other apps, and we're continuing to build it out longer term. But we found we need to build more specific experiences around categories like music or movies. Where we've taken the time to build those specific experiences, stuff has gone quite well.

I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.

I wear the same outfit or, at least, a different copy of it almost every day.

Figuring out what the next big trend is tells us what we should focus on.

There are different ways to do innovation. You can plant a lot of seeds, not be committed to any particular one of them, but just see what grows. And this really isn't how we've approached this. We go mission-first, then focus on the pieces we need and go deep on them and be committed to them.

I would rise, monk-like, at 6 A.M., speak to no one, make tea, and go immediately to my desk from which I didn't move until frills appeared around the edges of my eyes or I heard the sound of a wine bottle being uncorked. It would give the wrong impression to describe these as Writing Days.