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
And you guys were putting Java in light bulbs and everything else,
I wish him the best, I really do. I just think he and Microsoft are a bit narrow. He'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.
We would love to sell them even cheaper, if you guys could help get the euro up a bit,
We're the last guys left in this industry who can do it, and that's what we're about.
My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others' negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts.
When the sales guys run the company, the product guys do not matter so much, and a lot of them just turn off.
I think the world's a better place because Bill realized that his goal isn't to be the richest guy in the cemetery, right?
My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. That's how I see business: great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people.
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.
We are very careful about what features we add because we can't take them away.
Is it an inappropriate, unfair use of our copyrighted work? It seems pretty clear that it is.
These are the first personal computers in history with dual processors, ... This is the kind of stuff many of our customers do every day and this can save them an hour or two each day.