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
Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. You've got to find what you love... So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.
I was lucky - I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents' garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.
I believe life is an intelligent thing: that things aren't random.
I know it is frustrating to some of our investors that we're not sort of a quarter-to-quarter growth company, ... But the fact is our life is measured in pictures, not quarters. And we are increasing our output.
If I were running Apple, I would milk the Macintosh for all it's worth - and get busy on the next great thing. The PC wars are over. Done. Microsoft won a long time ago.
You know, I've got a plan that could rescue Apple. I can't say any more than that it's the perfect product and the perfect strategy for Apple. But nobody there will listen to me.
Apple has some tremendous assets, but I believe without some attention, the company could, could, could - I'm searching for the right word - could, could die.
It's not about pop culture, and it's not about fooling people, and it's not about convincing people that they want something they don't. We figure out what we want. And I think we're pretty good at having the right discipline to think through whether a lot of other people are going to want it, too. That's what we get paid to do.
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.
Unfortunately, people are not rebelling against Microsoft. They don't know any better.
Bill Gates'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.
Click. Boom. Amazing!
Your customers dream of a happier and better life. Don't move products. Instead, enrich lives.