~ The Biography Of Steve Jobs ~

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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 just are yourself, and you work with other people. If you're inspiring to other people, it makes an impression on them. For example, I hear people at Disney talking about what it was like to work with Walt. They loved him. I know that people at Pixar are going to talk about their days with John Lasseter in the same way. Who knows? Maybe someday somebody will feel that way about working with me. I have no idea.

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

But I think the things you most regret in life are things you didn't do. What you really regret was never asking that girl to dance. In business, if I knew earlier what I know now, I'd have probably done some things a lot better than I did, but I also would've probably done some other things a lot worse. But so what? It's more important to be engaged in the present.

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

On vacation recently I was reading this book by [physicist and Nobel laureate] Richard Feynmann. He had cancer, you know. In this book he was describing one of his last operations before he died. The doctor said to him, ‘Look, Richard, I'm not sure you're going to make it.’ And Feynmann made the doctor promise that if it became clear he wasn't going to survive, to take away the anesthetic. Do you know why? Feynmann said, ‘I want to feel what it's like to turn off.’ That's a good way to put yourself in the present--to look at what's affecting you right now and be curious about it even if it's bad.

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

Customers can't anticipate what the technology can do. They won't ask for things that they think are impossible. But the technology may be ahead of them. If you happen to mention something, they'll say, ‘Of course, I'll take that. Do you mean I can have that, too?’ It sounds logical to ask customers what they want and then give it to them. But they rarely wind up getting what they really want that way.

Source: Inc, Apr. 1989

[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

You're asking, where does aesthetic judgment come from? With many things—high-performance automobiles, for example—the aesthetic comes right from the function, and I suppose electronics is no different. But I've also found that the best companies pay attention to aesthetics. They take the extra time to lay out grids and proportion things appropriately, and it seems to pay off for them. I mean, beyond the functional benefits, the aesthetic communicates something about how they think of themselves, their sense of discipline in engineering, how they run their company, stuff like that.

Source: Inc, Apr. 1989

[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

(about his employees) If they are working in an environment where excellence is expected, then they will do excellent work without anything but self-motivation. I'm talking about an environment in which excellence is noticed and respected and is in the culture. If you have that, you don't have to tell people to do excellent work. They understand it from their surroundings.

Source: Inc, Apr. 1989

[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

The culture at NeXT definitely rewards independent thought, and we often have constructive disagreements—at all levels. It doesn't take a new person long to see that people feel fine about openly disagreeing with me. That doesn't mean I can't disagree with them, but it does mean that the best ideas win. Our attitude is that we want the best. Don't get hung up on who owns the idea. Pick the best one, and let's go.

Source: Inc, Apr. 1989

[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

Somebody once told me, ‘Manage the top line, and the bottom line will follow.’ What's the top line? It's things like, why are we doing this in the first place? What's our strategy? What are customers saying? How responsive are we? Do we have the best products and the best people? Those are the kind of questions you have to focus on.

Source: Inc, Apr. 1989

[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

I think the same philosophy that drives the product has to drive everything else if you want to have a great company. Manufacturing, for example, […] demands just as much thought and strategy as the product. If you don't pay attention to your manufacturing, it will limit the kind of product you can build and engineer. Some companies view manufacturing as a necessary evil, and some view it as something more neutral. But we view it instead as a tremendous opportunity to gain a competitive advantage. [I've thought that] ever since I visited Japan in the early '80s. And let me add that the same is true of sales and marketing. You need a sales and marketing organization that is oriented toward educating customers rather than just taking orders, providing a real service rather than moving boxes. This is extremely important.

Source: Inc, Apr. 1989

[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

We had a fundamental belief that doing it right the first time was going to be easier than having to go back and fix it. And I cannot say strongly enough that the repercussions of that attitude are staggering. I've seen them again and again throughout my business life.

Source: Inc, Apr. 1989

[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

You just make the best product you can, and you don't put it out until you feel it's right. But no matter what you think intellectually, your heart is beating pretty fast right before people see what you've produced.

Source: Inc, Apr. 1989

[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

I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what’s next.

Source: NBC Nightly News, May 2006

[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

Well, I don’t know what this Valley is. I work at Apple. I’m there so many hours a day and I don’t visit other places; I’m not an expert on Silicon Valley. What I do see is a small group of people who are artists and care more about their art than they do about almost anything else. It’s more important than finding a girlfriend, it’s more important… than cooking a meal, it’s more important than joining the Marines, it’s more important than whatever. Look at the way artists work. They’re not typically the most ‘balanced’ people in the world. Now, yes, we have a few workaholics here who are trying to escape other things, of course. But the majority of people out here have made very conscious decisions; they really have.

Source: Newsweek, fall 1984

[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

I’m just a guy who probably should have been a semi-talented poet on the Left Bank. I sort of got sidetracked here.

Source: Newsweek, fall 1984

[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

(on whether he thinks it's unfait calling people in Silicon Valley ‘nerds’) Of course. I think it’s an antiquated notion. There were people in the '60s who were like that and even in the early '70s, but now they’re not that way. Now they’re the people who would have been poets had they lived in the '60s. And they’re looking at computers as their medium of expression rather than language, rather than being a mathematician and using mathematics, rather than, you know, writing social theories.

Source: Newsweek, fall 1984