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I learned the power of 'no.' No is really important. Entrepreneurs are told to say 'yes, yes, more, more.'

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To help you focus, to help you really understand what you're doing, you have to say no a lot. When you say yes to everything, you get distracted. When you say no, you have to get the one thing you're doing really right.

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We built the iPod in weeks. It had to be what I thought it was going to be because there wasn't time for endless refinements.

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Usually, the biggest companies are not the most dynamic.

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I started designing the greenest the most connected home before the iPhone and the iPad.

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Every person I talk to has a story about how their smoke alarm went off or woke them up with a battery beeping. So you take it off the wall and you take the battery out and say 'screw this.' They hate the products.

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Studies have shown that children are less likely to wake up to a horn than the sound of a mother's voice.

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In Tahoe, you want to be able check on the temperature of the house or turn it on before you get there. Because it's really cold in the winter.

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Thermostats are made by very large companies with no incentive to innovate. Their customers are contractors or HVAC wholesalers, not consumers. So why spend to make them better? It's a good business.

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We work crazy hours in Silicon Valley; my wife says we're all kind of diseased in some way. We're totally obsessive compulsive - when we see an idea, we're like, 'let me in, it's so much fun.'

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Inventor

Born: March 22nd, 1969

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