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Steve Jobs Quotes - Page 17

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The tragedy is that Dell didn't win it - we lost it.

The tragedy is that Dell didn't win it - we lost it.

Winning, Tragedy, Funny Business

It wasn't that Microsoft was so brilliant or clever in copying the Mac, it's that the Mac was a sitting duck for 10 years. That's Apple's problem: Their differentiation evaporated.

Clever, Years, Ducks

"Apple Confidential 2.0: The Definitive History of the World's Most Colorful Company". Book by Owen W. Linzmayer, 2004.

Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.

Business, Years, Two

Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.58, Prabhat Prakashan

And we've all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it.

Inspirational, Damn, Chosen

We're just enthusiastic about what we do.

Life Lesson, Innovation, Enthusiastic

"Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs". Interview With David Sheff, reprints.longform.org. February 1985.

I can help the next generation remember the lineage of great companies here and how to continue the tradition. The Valley has been very supportive of me. I should do my best to repay.

Supportive, Generations, Valleys

"STEVE JOBS: The Biggest Mistake Apple Made After I Left Was Focusing On Profits Instead Of Products..." by Henry Blodget, www.businessinsider.com. October 23, 2011.

It's hard to tell with these Internet startups if they're really interested in building companies or if they're just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don't really want to build a company, they won't luck into it. That's because it's so hard that if you don't have a passion, you'll give up.

Inspirational, Money, Giving Up

Japan's very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don't think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that's already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.

Thinking, Japan, People

"Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs". Interview With David Sheff, reprints.longform.org. February 1985.

So [Polaroid's Dr. Edwin] Land, at 75, went off to spend the remainder of his life doing pure science, trying to crack the code of color vision. The man is a national treasure. I don't understand why people like that can't be held up as models: This is the most incredible thing to be - not an astronaut, not a football player - but this.

Football, Player, Men

I've always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.

Life, Technology, Wanted

"The Seed of Apple's Innovation". Bloomberg interview, www.bloomberg.com. October 12, 2004.

Our friends up north spend over five billion dollars on research and development and all they seem to do is copy Google and Apple.

Inspirational, Up North, Research And Development

Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.58, Prabhat Prakashan

We have never worried about numbers. In the marketplace, Apple is trying to focus the spotlight on products, because products really make a difference. You can't con people in this business. The products speak for themselves.

Apples, Numbers, People

Death is the destination we all share, no one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because death is very likely the single best invention of life.

Death, Best Job, Stanford University

Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life.

Profound, Important, Acid

Our DNA is as a consumer company - for that individual customer who's voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That's who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it's not up to par, it's our fault, plain and simply.

Inspirational, Jobs, Educational

Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.40, Prabhat Prakashan

Pixar is seen by a lot of folks as an overnight success, but if you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.

Business, Long, Looks

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me.

Men, Best Job, Design Work

Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.57, Prabhat Prakashan

Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow.

Death, Important, Dying

"A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs" by Mona Simpson, www.nytimes.com. October 30, 2011.

We think Android is very, very fragmented, and becoming more fragmented by the day. And as you know, Apple strives for the integrated model so that the user isn't forced to be the systems integrator.

Thinking, Apples, Androids

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.

Senior, Business, Couple

"Steve Jobs: `There's Sanity Returning'". Bloomberg interview, www.bloomberg.com. May 23, 1998.

If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backward 10 years later.

College, Stanford University, Years

Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

Every once in a while a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything. It's very fortunate if you can work on just one of these in your career. ... Apple's been very fortunate in that it's introduced a few of these.

Inspirational, Careers, Apples

"Apple unveils cell phone, Apple TV". www.nbcnews.com. January 1, 2007.

I am saddened, not by Microsoft's success — I have no problem with their success. They've earned their success, for the most part. I have a problem with the fact that they just make really third-rate products.

Best Job, Facts, Microsoft

Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.58, Prabhat Prakashan

The thing that drives me and my colleagues at both Apple and Pixar is that you see something very compelling to you, and you don't quite know how to get to it, but you know, sometimes intuitively, it's within your grasp. And it's worth putting in years of your life to make it come into existence.

Life, Years, Apples

I'd say we [Apple Inc.] are the most creative of the technology companies and definitely the most artist-friendly. Almost everyone in the music business uses a Mac and everyone has an iPod.

Artist, Technology, Apples

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