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“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.”
“We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn’t build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves…We just wanted to build the best thing we could build.” -1985
“I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year.... It's
very character-building.”
“The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We’re just in the beginning
stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people––as remarkable as the telephone.” -1985
“I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-
successful ones is pure perseverance.”
“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.”
“Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance
to change the world?”
“You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.”
“The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have
absolutely no taste…they don’t think of original ideas, and they
don’t bring much culture into their
products.”
“We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent.
Because this is our life.”
“When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of
drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the
back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of
wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the
aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.”
-1985
“It takes these very simple-minded instructions
-‘Go fetch a number, add it to this number, put the
result there, perceive if it’s greater than this other
number’–but executes them at a
rate of, let’s say, 1,000,000 per second. At 1,000,000 per second, the results
appear to be magic.” -1985
“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.” -1993
“Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.”
“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.” -2005
“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. My job is to make the whole executive team good enough to
be successors, so that’s what I try to do.”
“I’ll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I’ll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a
tapestry. There may be a few years when I’m not there, but I’ll always come back.” -1985