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It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.

It is much better to have just one idea, and if the idea is clear, then you can fight for it. That is how you can get things done.

People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.

You never undertake a project because you think other people will like it - because that way lies madness - but rather because you believe in it.

I can be pretty persuasive if I believe in something strongly enough.

When you come up with a good idea, you don't have to do a whole lot. The idea does it for you.

Don't let anyone tell you your ideas are stupid or the thing you feel most passionate about 'won't work' - it's happened to me time and time again, and we find that if you push at what you think is interesting hard enough, you're probably right.

To convince people to back your idea, you've got to sell it to yourself and know when it's the moment. Sometimes that means waiting. It's like surfing. You don't create energy, you just harvest energy already out there.