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
We're really buying into Bob's vision, not the other way around.
If Macintosh hadn't been successful, then I should have just thrown in the towel, because my vision of the whole industry would have been totally wrong.
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.
I would rather gamble on our vision than make a 'me, too' product.
Your time on this earth is limited, don’t live someone else's life, live by your vision.
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.
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.
Is it an inappropriate, unfair use of our copyrighted work? It seems pretty clear that it is.
These are the first personal computers in history with dual processors, ... This is the kind of stuff many of our customers do every day and this can save them an hour or two each day.
And you guys were putting Java in light bulbs and everything else,
Power computing has pioneered direct marketing and sales in the Macintosh market.