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
If you want to hire great people and have them stay, you have to be run by ideas, not hierarchy. The best ideas have to win.
That's what makes great products. It's not process-it's content.
I'd rather be a Pirate than join the Navy
We're not a media company. We don't own media. We don't own music. We don't own films or television. We're not a media company. We're just Apple.
Don't settle, as with all matters of the heart you'll know when you find it
Each dream you leave behind is a part of your future that will no longer exist.
If, for some reason, we make some big mistake and IBM wins, my personal feeling is that we are going to enter a computer Dark Ages for about twenty years.
Sometimes life hits you like a brick in the face. Don't give up.
I think the Macintosh was created by a group of people who felt that ah there wasn't a strict vision between sort of science and art.
People equated burning CDs with theft. That's not what burning CDs is. Theft is about acquiring the music from the Internet.
Our approach is to think of companies not as businesses but as collections of people. We [Apple]want to qualitatively change the way people work. We don't just want to help them do word processing faster or add numbers faster. We want to change the way they can communicate with one another. We're seeing less paper flying around and more quality of communication.
One: demonstrations always crash. And two: the probability of them crashing goes up exponentially with the number of people watching.
I used to sleep on the floor in friends' rooms, returning Coke bottles for food, money, and getting weekly free meals at a local temple
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication-- Steve Jobs turned this into the slogan behind an early Mac advertising campaign. Which doesn't make it less true.