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aim not to be clever, but to be dogged

aim not to be clever. but to be dogged. to be determined.

a clever person doesn’t spend 14 years building 5127 prototypes of the world’s first cyclonic vacuum cleaner.

a determined person does.

determination over the long term is the foundation that progress and innovation are built upon.

there is no such thing as a quantum leap.

there is only dogged persistence.

and in the end you make it look like a quantum leap.

the edisonian way of product development is the iterative way

it is the progress by stages

it is that persistent trial and error that allows you to wake up one morning

after many many mornings

with a world beating product.

when an idea comes

don’t sit down and process it through pages of calculation

don’t argue it with anyone

just try to build it

the root principle is to do things your way

it doesn’t matter how others did it

it doesn’t matter if it can be done better

as long as it works and it’s exciting

people will follow you.

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