~ 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

Even though some people have come out with neat products, if their company is perceived as a sweatshop or a revolving door, it’s not considered much of a success. Remember, the role models were Hewlett and Packard. Their main achievement was that they built a company. Nobody remembers their first frequency-counter, their first audio oscillator, their first this or that. And they sell so many products now that no one person really symbolizes the company. […] And they built a company and they lived that philosophy for 35 or 40 years and that’s why they’re heroes. Hewlett and Packard started what became the Valley.

Source: Newsweek, fall 1984

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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

See, one of the things you have to remember is that we started off with a very idealistic perspective—that doing something with the highest quality, doing it right the first time, would really be cheaper than having to go back and do it again. Ideas like that.

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’ve always thought it would be really wonderful to have a little box, a sort of slate that you could carry along with you

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

(about the iPod) It's as Apple as anything Apple has ever done.

Source: Newsweek, Jul. 25 2004

[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

There are lots of examples where not the best product wins. Windows would be one of those, but there are examples where the best product wins. And the iPod is a great example of that.

Source: Newsweek, Jul. 25 2004

[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 have a very simple life. I have my family and I have Apple and Pixar. And I don't do much else.

Source: Newsweek, Jul. 25 2004

[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

When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off, you can oftentimes arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions. Most people just don't put in the time or energy to get there. We believe that customers are smart, and want objects which are well thought through.

Source: Newsweek, Oct. 16 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

I was very lucky to grow up in a time when music really mattered. It wasn't just something in the background; it really mattered to a generation of kids growing up. It really changed the world. I think that music faded in importance for a while, and the iPod has helped to bring music back into people's lives in a really meaningful way. Music is so deep within all of us, but it's easy to go for a day or a week or a month or a year without really listening to music. And the iPod has changed that for tens of millions of people, and that makes me really happy, because I think music is good for the soul.

Source: Newsweek, Oct. 16 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

So if Apple just becomes a place where computers are a commodity item and where the romance is gone, and where people forget that computers are the most incredible invention that man has ever invented, then I'll feel I have lost Apple. But if I'm a million miles away and all those people still feel those things and they're still working to make the next great personal computer, then I will feel that my genes are still in there.

Source: Newsweek, Sep. 29 1985

[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

If I look at myself and ask, ‘What am I best at and what do I enjoy most doing?’ I think what I'm best at is creating sort of new innovative products.

Source: Newsweek, Sep. 29 1985

[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

It probably is true that the people who have been able to come up with the innovations in many industries are maybe not the people that either are best skilled at, or, frankly, enjoy running a large enterprise where they lose contact with the day-to-day workings of that innovative process. Dr. Land at Polaroid, he's a perfect example.

Source: Newsweek, Sep. 29 1985

[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

What I'm best at doing is finding a group of talented people and making things with them. I respect the direction that Apple is going in. But for me personally, you know, I want to make things. And if there's no place for me to make things there, then I'll do what I did twice before

Source: Newsweek, Sep. 29 1985

[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

And so I haven't got any sort of odd chip on my shoulder about proving anything to myself or anybody else. And remember, though the outside world looks at success from a numerical point of view, my yardstick might be quite different than that. My yardstick may be how every computer that's designed from here on out will have to be at least as good as a Macintosh.

Source: Newsweek, Sep. 29 1985

[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

Apple was about as pure of a Silicon Valley company as you could imagine. We started in a garage. Woz and I both grew up in Silicon Valley. Our role model was Hewlett-Packard. And so I guess that's what we went into it thinking. Hewlett-Packard, you know, Jobs and Wozniak.

Source: Newsweek, Sep. 29 1985

[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 don't think that my role in life is to run big organizations and do incremental improvements.

Source: Newsweek, Sep. 29 1985