Quotes from Lewis Schiff

I grew up in a modern business environment and did not experience the kind of prejudice that my mother and grandfather experienced.

I would have to say that my mother's entrepreneurial perspective, and that of her father's, are very evident in my own outlook.

It's the "Success Paradox." When a set of behaviors has gotten you somewhere, you keep doing them even though the circumstances have changed.

During that time, I began writing and designing the propaganda that we distributed to the students who we were trying to convince to join us.

By the time I entered this prestigious high school, my interest in formal education had already been exhausted.

Apple makes computers and they have to be great at providing the product they promised every individual who wants to purchase from them. This is where they should spend the bulk of their energy.

I believe that only a subset of us is meant to lead. The rest want to follow.

I think small groups have more collective wisdom than an individual.

Kildall, the innovator, followed his passion for technical excellence and was shocked that IBM wouldn't follow him. Gates, the imitator, took his cues from IBM every step of the way, because he believed that following Big Blue was the smartest way to follow the money.

Of 1,091 inventions patented in Canada, only 75 of them ever made it to market—less than 1 percent. Of these, 45 lost money. Just 6 out of 1,091 patented inventions made significant profits for their inventors.

find the field that interests you the most, work with the biggest and richest player willing to partner with you, and then do everything you can to help that big, rich partner succeed.

For high-achieving people, the ultimate reward for great success is not the idleness of retirement. The reward is doing more of the productive things that they love the most, which, as with Doobin, often turns out to make the most financial sense anyway.

Every day you run the risk of neglecting your own purposes in the whirl of responding to other people's requests and concerns. This

Entrepreneurs succeed when they function as bridges between different kinds of networks.

When I started out, I wanted to have everything solved by the time I was 30. That didn't happen. Instead, I realized that the journey is the destination, that the work.

There is a direct line between the communications work I did to protest tuition increases at my school and what I do today. Plus it had one other benefit...it got me kicked out of college!

I found that I loved producing that kind of propaganda and I loved the power that a few students with a Macintosh computer could wield. I was hooked on communications at that point.