Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs
Steven Paul "Steve" Jobswas an American information technology entrepreneur and inventor. He was the co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officerof Apple Inc.; CEO and majority shareholder of Pixar Animation Studios; a member of The Walt Disney Company's board of directors following its acquisition of Pixar; and founder, chairman, and CEO of NeXT Inc. Jobs is widely recognized as a pioneer of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, along with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. Shortly after his death, Jobs's...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth24 February 1955
CountryUnited States of America
I hope that every customer, artist and music company executive takes a moment today to reflect on what we've achieved together during the past three years. Over 1 billion songs have now been legally purchased and downloaded around the globe, representing a major force against music piracy and the future of music distribution as we move from CDs to the Internet.
I heard some hisses. Au contraire. I think it's the best browser on the platform.
I'm hoping our software strategies are boring to you, because they're not changing every year, ... That is our strategy.
I'm an audiophile. I've had stereos costing, well I won't say because you'll think I'm crazy. But, costing a lot more. And, I'm thinking of getting rid of mine for this.
If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you will most certainly be right.
In our track record over the last few years, we've only had one product that we've introduced that hasn't met our expectations in its first quarter of sales, and that is our G4 cube, ... If we haven't hit it right on the market with the G4 cube, well, we're just going to keep working on it until we do.
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.
I called Bob and said I wanted to show him something, ... We're both always looking for ways to make content more available to customers.
The G3 266-MHz (chip) is as fast as a 500-MHz Pentium, which doesn't even exist because they can't make them,
You've given us the time to get this turned around and get the volumes back up, and we deeply appreciate it,
And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We're always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it's only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.
You could have a negative view of having 4 or 5 percent share, but one of the positives is that you don't really have to care what the rest of the market is like. It's like being on the bottom of the ocean -- it doesn't really matter what the weather on the top is like.
You can now get a Mercedes or BMW for the price of a Taurus,
The iPod is not a new category. Music is not new. It's not a speculative market. It's a very, very large market. It's been around for thousands of years and will be around as long as humans exist.