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Steve Jobs Quotes - Page 18

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We want to reinvent the phone. What's the killer app? The killer app is making calls! It's amazing how hard it is to make calls on most phones. We want to let you use contacts like never before - sync your iPhone with

We want to reinvent the phone. What's the killer app? The killer app is making calls! It's amazing how hard it is to make calls on most phones. We want to let you use contacts like never before - sync your iPhone with your PC or mac.

Iphone, Phones, Use

We're cautious. We'd rather exceed expectations than miss but I think it's going to be a continued difficult economy. Apple is trying a different way to navigate out of this, we're trying to innovate.

Thinking, Apples, Expectations

My kids accuse me and my wife of being fascists and overly concerned about tech, and they say that none of their friends have the same rules... That's because we have seen the dangers of technology firsthand. I've seen it in myself, I don't want to see that happen to my kids.

Kids, Technology, Wife

I think PCs are going to be like trucks. Less people will need them. And this is going to make some people uneasy.

Thinking, People, Needs

"Steve Jobs live from D8". Live blog, www.engadget.com. June 1, 2010.

You know, I've got a plan that could rescue Apple. I can't say any more than that it's the perfect product and the perfect strategy for Apple. But nobody there will listen to me.

Life, Apples, Perfect

Fortune magazine, September 18, 1995.

There will always be music on the Internet that people can steal. What's new is not theft. What's new is a distribution channel for stolen property called the Internet. So there will always be illegal music on the Internet.

People, Internet, Stealing

Billboard Interview, www.billboard.com. May 1, 2004.

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country.... I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this.... It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating. None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me.

Inspiring, Beautiful, Country

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

I was actually a fruitarian at that point in time. I ate only fruit. Now I'm a garbage can like everyone else. And we were about three months late in filing a fictitious business name so I threatened to call the company Apple Computer unless someone suggested a more interesting name by five o'clock that day. Hoping to stimulate creativity. And it stuck. And that's why we're called Apple.

Business, Creativity, Garbage Cans

The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And I don't mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don't think of original ideas, and they don't bring much culture into their products.

Inspirational, Mean, Technology

"Triumph of the Nerds", June 12, 1996.

You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it's humorous, all the attention to it, because it's hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that's happened to me.

Money, Humorous, Insightful

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

The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We're just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people - as remarkable as the telephone.

Communication, Home, Compelling Reason

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

It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now.

Years, Three, Want

"The Entrepreneur of the Decade". Interview with Bo Burlingham, George Gendron, www.inc.com. April 1, 1989.

Unfortunately, people are not rebelling against Microsoft. They don't know any better.

Life, People, Microsoft

Rolling Stone Interview, June 16, 1994.

iMac is next year's computer for $1,299, not last year's computer for $999.

Years, Next Year, Lasts

"Money Quotes, Steve Jobs-Style" by Owen Linzmayer and Ryan Singel, www.wired.com. August 24, 2011.

Focus is about saying, No. And the result of that focus is going to be some really great products where the total is much greater than the sum of the parts.

Focus, Saying No, Strategy

"Jobs: 'Focus Is About Saying No'" by Erick Schonfeld, techcrunch.com. October 6, 2011.

I think Pixar has the opportunity to be the next Disney - not replace Disney - but be the next Disney.

Opportunity, Thinking, Next

BusinessWeek, November 23, 1998.

Great engineers are a huge multiplier.

Engineers, Huge

We've gone through the operating system and looked at everything and asked how can we simplify this and make it more powerful at the same time.

Powerful, Gone, Operating Systems

"Mac OS X Beta Arrives", abcnews.go.com.

I thought deeply about this. I ended up concluding that the worst thing that could possibly happen as we get big and as we get a little more influence in the world is if we change our core values and start letting it slide, I can't do that. I'd rather quit.

World, Littles, Slides

Now, we are selling over 5 million songs a day now. Isn't that unbelievable? That's 58 songs every second of every minute of every hour of every day.

Song, Hours, Selling

Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.79, Prabhat Prakashan

I told [Bill Gates] I believed every word of what I said but that I should never have said it in public. I wish him the best, I really do. I just think he and Microsoft are a bit narrow. He'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.

Inspiring, Thinking, Best Job

It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I'm still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.

Optimistic, Mean, Long

Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.43, Prabhat Prakashan

When you're in a start-up, the first ten people will determine whether the company succeeds or not. Each is 10 percent of the company. So why wouldn't you take as much time as necessary to find all the A players? If three were not so great, why would you want a company where 30 percent of your people are not so great? A small company depends on great people much more than a big company does.

Player, People, Doe

School was pretty hard for me at the beginning.

School, Hard

"Business Coach | Education: What’s Going On??". www.thrivetimeshow.com.

When companies get bigger they try to replicate their success. But they assume their magic came from process. They try to use processes to substitute content.

Magic, Trying, Use

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