Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs
Steven Paul "Steve" Jobswas an American information technology entrepreneur and inventor. He was the co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officerof Apple Inc.; CEO and majority shareholder of Pixar Animation Studios; a member of The Walt Disney Company's board of directors following its acquisition of Pixar; and founder, chairman, and CEO of NeXT Inc. Jobs is widely recognized as a pioneer of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, along with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. Shortly after his death, Jobs's...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth24 February 1955
CountryUnited States of America
We had nothing to lose and everything to gain.
Do you want to sell sugar water all your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?
You're missing it. This is not a one-man show. What's reinvigorating this company is two things: One, there's a lot of really talented people in this company who listened to the world tell them they were losers for a couple of years, and some of them were on the verge of starting to believe it themselves. But they're not losers. What they didn't have was a good set of coaches, a good plan. A good senior management team. But they have that now.
You can tell a lot about a person by who his or her heroes are.
It's like when IBM drove a lot of innovation out of the computer industry before the microprocessor came along. Eventually, Microsoft will crumble because of complacency, and maybe some new things will grow. But until that happens, until there's some fundamental technology shift, it's just over.
You have to trust in something--your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.
When we hire someone, even if they are going to be in marketing, I will have them talk to the design folks and the engineers.
You can't look at the competition and say you're going to do it better. You have to look at the competition and say you're going to do it differently.
It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.
The best way to create value in the 21st century is to connect Creativity with Technology
Making an enduring company was both harder and more important than making a great product.
The juice goes out of Christianity when it becomes too based on faith rather than on living like Jesus or seeing the world as Jesus saw it.
Packaging can be theater, it can create a story
If you define the problem correctly, you almost have the solution.