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
We are very careful about what features we add because we can't take them away.
Who cares about the Apple II? The Macintosh is the future of Apple, and you're going to start on it now.
We heard that Apple was dying, that Apple can't survive. Every time we convince people we've accomplished something at one level, they come up with something new. We've convinced them that we've taken care of last month's question.
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.
I don't really care about being right, I just care about success.
I don't want to fail, of course. But even though I didn't know how bad things really were, I still had a lot to think about before I said yes. I had to consider the implications for Pixar, for my family, for my reputation. I decided that I didn't really care, because this is what I want to do. If I try my best and fail, well, I've tried my best.
Every once in a while a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything. It's very fortunate if you can work on just one of these in your career. Apple's been very fortunate in that it's introduced a few of these.
Find people who are competent and really bright, but more importantly, people who care exactly about the same things you care about.
One way to drive fear out of a relationship is to realize that your partner's values are the same as yours, that what you care about is exactly what they care about. In my opinion, that drives fear out and makes for a great partnership, whether it's a corporate partnership or a marriage.
The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work
If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don't have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.
We went from nothing online to the gold standard in e-commerce.
What's happened at Apple is that our business has basically tripled in the last five or six years.
We convinced people fairly rapidly that survival, at least in the short term, was not an issue.