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
What's happened at Apple is that our business has basically tripled in the last five or six years.
We're the last guys left in this industry who can do it, and that's what we're about.
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.
We are delighted that Apple is delivering strong growth on every front -- revenues, profits and units -- and in particular that our unit growth last quarter was 2.5 times higher than the industry average, which leads directly to market share growth. Apple also continues to deliver the best asset management in the industry, ending the quarter with less than one day of inventory.
So today for the first time, I can confirm the rumors that every release of Mac OS X has been compiled for both PowerPC and Intel. This has been going on for the last five years.
If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?
We took our medicine last quarter and brought our channel inventories back down to about five and a half weeks,
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.
In the first 30 years of your life, you make your habits. For the last 30 years of your life, your habits make you.
I have enough to last for the rest of my life.
iMac is next year's computer for $1,299, not last year's computer for $999.
If today were my last day, would I do what I'm doing?...If the answer was 'No' too many days in a row, I'd make a change.
We went from nothing online to the gold standard in e-commerce.
We convinced people fairly rapidly that survival, at least in the short term, was not an issue.