~ The Biography Of Steve Jobs ~

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Steve used to start his employee retreats by his famous "Sayings from Chairman Jobs" — he was a great person to quote indeed

Apple Quotes

My job is to not be easy on people. My job is to make them better. My job is to pull things together from different parts of the company and clear the ways and get the resources for the key projects. And to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better, coming up with more aggressive visions of how it could be.

Source: Fortune, Mar. 7 2008

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Steve used to start his employee retreats by his famous "Sayings from Chairman Jobs" — he was a great person to quote indeed

Apple Quotes

Recruiting is hard. It's just finding the needles in the haystack. We do it ourselves and we spend a lot of time at it. I've participated in the hiring of maybe 5,000-plus people in my life. So I take it very seriously. You can't know enough in a one-hour interview. So, in the end, it's ultimately based on your gut. How do I feel about this person? What are they like when they're challenged? Why are they here? I ask everybody that: 'Why are you here?' The answers themselves are not what you're looking for. It's the meta-data.

Source: Fortune, Mar. 7 2008

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Sayings

Quotes
Steve used to start his employee retreats by his famous "Sayings from Chairman Jobs" — he was a great person to quote indeed

Apple Quotes

We've got really capable people at Apple. I made Tim [Cook] COO and gave him the Mac division and he's done brilliantly. I mean, some people say, 'Oh, God, if [Jobs] got run over by a bus, Apple would be in trouble.' And, you know, I think it wouldn't be a party, but there are really capable people at Apple. And the board would have some good choices about who to pick as CEO. My job is to make the whole executive team good enough to be successors, so that's what I try to do.

Source: Fortune, Mar. 7 2008

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Steve used to start his employee retreats by his famous "Sayings from Chairman Jobs" — he was a great person to quote indeed

Apple Quotes

We've got 25,000 people at Apple. About 10,000 of them are in the stores. And my job is to work with sort of the top 100 people, that's what I do. That doesn't mean they're all vice presidents. Some of them are just key individual contributors. So when a good idea comes, you know, part of my job is to move it around, just see what different people think, get people talking about it, argue with people about it, get ideas moving among that group of 100 people, get different people together to explore different aspects of it quietly, and, you know - just explore things.

Source: Fortune, Mar. 7 2008

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Sayings

Quotes
Steve used to start his employee retreats by his famous "Sayings from Chairman Jobs" — he was a great person to quote indeed

Apple Quotes

We do no market research. We don't hire consultants. The only consultants I've ever hired in my 10 years is one firm to analyze Gateway's retail strategy so I would not make some of the same mistakes they made [when launching Apple's retail stores]. But we never hire consultants, per se. We just want to make great products.

Source: Fortune, Mar. 7 2008

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Sayings

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Steve used to start his employee retreats by his famous "Sayings from Chairman Jobs" — he was a great person to quote indeed

Apple Quotes

We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life. We could be sitting in a monastery somewhere in Japan.

Source: Fortune, Mar. 7 2008

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Steve used to start his employee retreats by his famous "Sayings from Chairman Jobs" — he was a great person to quote indeed

Apple Quotes

The whole strategy for Apple now is, if you will, to be the Sony of the computer business.

Source: Fortune, Nov. 9 1998

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Sayings

Quotes
Steve used to start his employee retreats by his famous "Sayings from Chairman Jobs" — he was a great person to quote indeed

Apple Quotes

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It’s not about money. It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it.

Source: Fortune, Nov. 9 1998

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Sayings

Quotes
Steve used to start his employee retreats by his famous "Sayings from Chairman Jobs" — he was a great person to quote indeed

Apple Quotes

when we laid some people off at Apple a year ago, or when I have to take people out of their jobs, it's harder for me now. Much harder. I do it because that's my job. But when I look at people when this happens, I also think of them as being 5 years old. And I think that person could be me coming home to tell my wife and kids that I just got laid off. Or that could be one of my kids in 20 years. I never took it so personally before. Life is short, and we're all going to die really soon. It's true, you know.

Source: Fortune, Nov. 9 1998

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Sayings

Quotes
Steve used to start his employee retreats by his famous "Sayings from Chairman Jobs" — he was a great person to quote indeed

Apple Quotes

You go to your TV when you want to turn your brain off. You go to your computer when you want to turn your brain on. Those are not the same.

Source: Fortune, Nov. 9 1998

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Sayings

Quotes
Steve used to start his employee retreats by his famous "Sayings from Chairman Jobs" — he was a great person to quote indeed

Apple Quotes

When I was growing up, a guy across the street had a Volkswagen Bug. He really wanted to make it into a Porsche. He spent all his spare money and time accessorizing this VW, making it look and sound loud. By the time he was done, he did not have a Porsche. He had a loud, ugly VW.

Source: Fortune, Nov. 9 1998

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Sayings

Quotes
Steve used to start his employee retreats by his famous "Sayings from Chairman Jobs" — he was a great person to quote indeed

Apple Quotes

The only purpose for me in building a company is so that it can make products. Of course, building a very strong company and a foundation of talent and culture is essential over the long run to keep making great products. On the other hand, to me, the company is one of humanity's most amazing inventions. It's totally abstract. Sure, you have to build something with bricks and mortar to put the people in, but basically a company is this abstract construct we've invented, and it's incredibly powerful.

Source: Fortune, Nov. 9 1998

[MysteRy]

Sayings

Quotes
Steve used to start his employee retreats by his famous "Sayings from Chairman Jobs" — he was a great person to quote indeed

Apple Quotes

My heroes--Dave Packard, for example, left all his money to his foundation; Bob Noyce [the late co-founder of Intel] was another. I'm old enough to have been able to know these guys. I met Andy Grove when I was 21. I called him and told him I'd heard he was really good at operations and asked if I could take him out to lunch. I did that with others too. These guys were all company builders, and the gestalt of Silicon Valley at that time made a big impression on me. There are people around here who start companies just to make money, but the great companies, well, that's not what they're about.

Source: Fortune, Nov. 9 1998

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Sayings

Quotes
Steve used to start his employee retreats by his famous "Sayings from Chairman Jobs" — he was a great person to quote indeed

Apple Quotes

I don't think much about my time of life. I just get up in the morning and it's a new day. Somebody told me when I was 17 to live each day as if it were my last, and that one day I'd be right. I am at a stage where I don't have to do things just to get by. But then I've always been that way because I've never really cared about money that much. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I feel the same way now as I felt when I was 17.

Source: Fortune, Nov. 9 1998

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Sayings

Quotes
Steve used to start his employee retreats by his famous "Sayings from Chairman Jobs" — he was a great person to quote indeed

Apple Quotes

That's the moment that an artist really decides who he or she is. If they keep on risking failure, they're still artists. Dylan and Picasso were always risking failure. This Apple thing is that way for me. I don't want to fail, of course. But even though I didn't know how bad things really were, I still had a lot to think about before I said yes. I had to consider the implications for Pixar, for my family, for my reputation. I decided that I didn't really care, because this is what I want to do. If I try my best and fail, well, I tried my best. What makes you become conservative is realizing that you have something to lose. Remember The Whole Earth Catalog? The last edition had a photo on the back cover of a remote country road you might find yourself on while hitchhiking up to Oregon. It was a beautiful shot, and it had a caption that really grabbed me. It said: ‘Stay hungry. Stay foolish.’ It wasn't an ad for anything--just one of Stewart Brand's profound statements. It's wisdom. ‘Stay hungry. Stay foolish.’

Source: Fortune, Nov. 9 1998