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
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This ushers in a new generation of iMacs. We started a partnership less than a year ago to make this happen -- it's been incredible how our engineers have bonded and how well this has gone.
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.
We didn't have anything to go on, ... It was our first film and you know there was sort of a betting pool around here as to how well it would do, and I would say the majority of folks thought it would be less successful than it was. I think we were stunned.
I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year. It's very character-building.
Focus and simplicity...once you get there, you can move mountains.
And no, we don't know where it will lead. We just know there's something much bigger than any of us here.
Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest.
We're just enthusiastic about what we do.
We hire people who want to make the best things in the world.
It comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much.
I'm as proud of what we don't do as I am of what we do.
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.