Martin Svoboda

“Either you’re trying to make something spectacular with no compromises or you’re not.”

“It is our weakness that calls forth the grace of God. You show your weakness, He gives us strength.”

“All dictatorships take away our freedom to choose. We both know that. Or reveal our own weaknesses.”

“Trust and attention—these are the scarce items in a post-scarcity world.”

“I am not smarter than anybody else but I can out work you – and my key to success for you, or anybody else is make sure you are the first one in there every day and the last one to leave. Don’t ever take a lunch break or go to the bathroom, you keep working.”

“Young people are the same as they always were. Just as ignorant.”

“Cats kill far more birds than men. Why don't you have a slogan: ‘Kill a cat and save a bird?”

“Bits are beginning to drop off.”

“Children go to school because their parents don't want them in the house.”

“If you want an average, successful life, it doesn’t take much planning. Just stay out of trouble, go to school, and apply for jobs you might like. But if you want something extraordinary, you have two paths: 1) Become the best at one specific thing. 2) Become very good (top 25%) at two or more things”

“Life favors the specific ask and punishes the vague wish.”

“Life can be much broader, once you discover one simple fact, and that is that everything around you that you call ‘life’ was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use. Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.”

“Relativity is a simple concept. It asserts that the fundamental laws of physics are the same whatever your state of motion.”

“The unsolicited promise is one of the most reliable signals because it is nearly always of questionable motive.”

“Hate is baggage. Life's too short to be pissed off all the time. It's just not worth it.”

“Style is the only thing you can’t buy. It’s not in a shopping bag, a label, or a price tag. It’s something reflected from our soul to the outside world — an emotion.”

“If it’s not edible, it’s not food. If it’s not wearable, it’s not fashion.”

“Perfectionism is dangerous because there is nothing after it, just a museum.”

“Is fashion important? Is it important to talk about luxury? Does it really matter if you’re going to wear a red dress or not? Finally, I thought, Because of that woman, it is important. You make people dream. You make people think. You have to give them stories. You have to introduce fantasy. Fashion is how we bring them into the world today. That is my job.”