Steve Jobs (1955 – 2011)
Chairman and CEO of Apple Inc.
Good artists copy; great artists steal.
Why would I ever want to run Disney? Wouldn't it make more sense just to sell them Pixar and retire?
Because I'm the CEO, and I think it can be done.
It'll make your jaw drop.
It's more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy.
Steve insists that we're shipping in early 1982, and won't accept answers to the contrary. The best way to describe the situation is a term from Star Trek. Steve has a reality distortion field.… In his presence, reality is malleable. He can convince anyone of practically anything. It wears off when he's not around, but it makes it hard to have realistic schedules.
They are shamelessly copying us.
Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me ... Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me.
If I knew in 1986 how much it was going to cost to keep Pixar going, I doubt if I would have bought the company.
"You‘ve got to start with the customer experience and work back toward the technology - not the other way around."
We used to dream about this stuff. Now we get to build it. It's pretty great.
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.
Nobody has tried to swallow us since I've been here. I think they are afraid how we would taste.
The subscription model of buying music is bankrupt. I think you could make available the Second Coming in a subscription model and it might not be successful.
I was worth about over a million dollars when I was twenty-three and over ten million dollars when I was twenty-four, and over a hundred million dollars when I was twenty-five and it wasn't that important because I never did it for the money.
Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
"If it could save a person’s life, could you find a way to save ten seconds off the boot time? If there were five million people using the Mac, and it took ten seconds extra to turn it on every day, that added up to three hundred million or so hours per year people would save, which was the equivalent of at least one hundred lifetimes saved per year.
My girlfriend always laughs during sex — no matter what she's reading.
We're gambling on our vision, and we would rather do that than make "me too" products. Let some other companies do that. For us, it's always the next dream.