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
Power computing has pioneered direct marketing and sales in the Macintosh market.
Apple had a terrific quarter -- we sold a record number of Power Macintosh G3 computers, customers love our new PowerBooks, Apple earned its highest profit in years and we ended the quarter with the lowest inventory level among the major PC players,
Apple had a great quarter, no question about it. We are very pleased with the strong demand for our Power Macintosh G3 computers, which accounted for 51 percent of all units sold.
Apple had a great quarter, no question about it, ... We are very pleased with the strong demand for our Power Macintosh G3 computers, which accounted for 51 percent of all units sold.
The most powerful person in the world is the story teller. The storyteller sets the vision, values and agenda of an entire generation that is to come.
Coming back to America was, for me, much more of a culture shock than going to India. The people in the Indian countryside don't use their intellect like we do, they use their intuition instead, and their intuition is far more developed than in the rest of the world. Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect in my opinion. That's had a big impact on my work.
We've gone through the operating system and looked at everything and asked how can we simplify this and make it more powerful at the same time.
Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect.
Focusing is about saying No.
I began to realize that an intuitive understanding and consciousness was more significant than abstract thinking and intellectual logical analysis. Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect, in my opinion. That's had a big impact on my work.
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.