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
Companies must have a noble cause, and it's the leaders job to transform that noble cause into such an inspiring vision, that it will attract the most talented people in the world to want to join it.
Breakthrough is how to distinguish a leader and who followed
Expose yourself to the best things humans have done and then try to bring those things into what you are doing.
Making an enduring company was both harder and more important than making a great product.
Do you want to sell sugar water all your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?
It [what you choose to do] has got to be something that you're passionate about because otherwise you won't have the perseverance to see it through.
Innovation distinguishes a leader from a follower.
The greatest artists like Dylan, Picasso and Newton risked failure. And if we want to be great, we've got to risk it too.
The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.
You have to be burning with "an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right." If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.
My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better.
Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.
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.