Quotes about Authenticity

We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn't build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren't going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build.

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

Our huffing and puffing to impress God, our scrambling for brownie points, our thrashing about trying to fix ourselves while hiding our pettiness and wallowing in guilt are nauseating to God and are a flat out denial of the gospel of grace.

Truth will prevail.

The greatest thing to be achieved in advertising, in my opinion, is believability, and nothing is more believable than the product itself.

I don't make people bend over backwards, and I don't like that in people. I am definitely no diva.

I think we run into issues when our online brands are not rooted in who we are, and I think we need to have explicit discussions with ourselves about who we want to be, what we want to represent, and how we want to express that.

Deal faithfully and truly with your own soul.

The secret sauce of the business that I can offer is my creativity, and in order to keep my creativity alive and fresh, I have to pretend that no one is watching the show, that there are no audiences, there are no ratings; I'm just telling a story.

The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to keep your soul alive.