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'm sorry, it's true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We're born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It's been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much - if at all.
It's better to be a pirate than to join the navy.
And no, we don't know where it will lead. We just know there's something much bigger than any of us here.
I'm one of those people that think Thomas Edison and the light bulb changed the world more than Karl Marx ever did.
Great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people.
Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.
the best innovation is sometimes the company, the way you organize the company
You cannot mandate productivity, you must provide the tools to let people become their best.
The cure for Apple is not cost-cutting. The cure for Apple is to innovate its way out of its current predicament.
Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest.
A-plus players like to work together and they don't like it if you tolerate B work
So when a good idea comes, you know, part of my job is to move it around, just see what different people think, get people talking about it, argue with people about it, get ideas moving among that group of 100 people, get different people together to explore different aspects of it quietly, and, you know – just explore things.
There are sneakers that cost more than an iPod.
Good PR educates people; that's all it is. You can't con people in this business. The products speak for themselves.