Steve Jobs (1955 – 2011)
Chairman and CEO of Apple Inc.
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.
They're babes in the woods. I think I can help turn Alvy and Ed into businessmen.
You've baked a really lovely cake, but then you've used dog shit for frosting.
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking. Don’t settle.
I wish developing great products was as easy as writing a check. If that was the case, Microsoft would have great products.
It is hard to think that a $2 billion company with 4,300-plus people couldn't compete with six people in blue jeans.
We believe it's the biggest advance in animation since Walt Disney started it all with the release of Snow White 50 years ago.
We had the hardware expertise, the industrial design expertise and the software expertise, including iTunes. One of the biggest insights we have was that we decided not to try to manage your music library on the iPod, but to manage it in iTunes. Other companies tried to do everything on the device itself and made it so complicated that it was useless.
You always have to keep pushing to innovate. Dylan could have sung protest songs forever and probably made a lot of money, but he didn’t. He had to move on, and when he did, by going electric in 1965, he alienated a lot of people. His 1966 Europe tour was his greatest…. The Beatles were the same way. They kept evolving, moving, refining their art. That’s what I’ve always tried to do — keep moving. Otherwise, as Dylan says, if you are not busy being born, you’re busy dying.
Unfortunately, people are not rebelling against Microsoft. They don’t know any better.