Steve Jobs Quotes - Page 22

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• We've demonstrated a strong track record of being very disciplined with the use of our cash. We don't let it burn a hole in our pocket, we don't allow it to motivate us to do stupid acquisitions. And so I think that we'd like to continue to keep our powder dry, because we do feel that there are one or more strategic opportunities in the future.

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  Strong, Stupid, Opportunity

  "Apple Using Cash to Secure Cache of Components" by John Paczkowski, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2011.

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• It's not like Windows users don't have any power. I think they are happy with Windows, and that's an incredibly depressing thought

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  Depressing, Thinking, Window

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• Music companies are not technology companies any more than technology companies are music companies. They're really different from each other.

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  Technology, Different, Company

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I'm not worried about the country's long-term future. This country is insanely great. What I'm worried about is that we don't talk enough about solutions.

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  Country, Long, Enough

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• I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out.

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  College, Class, Ideas

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Guess who surprised themselves and changed their minds.

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  Mind, Samsung, Changed

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• I'm sorry, it's true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We're born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It's been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much - if at all.

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  Children, Sorry, Technology

  "Steve Jobs: The Next Insanely Great Thing". Interview with Gary Wolf, www.wired.com. February 1, 1996.

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• People need to have the incentive that if they invest and succeed, they can make a fair profit. Otherwise they'll stop investing.

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  People, Needs, Investing

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• I'd like the people teaching my kids to be good enough that they could get a job at the company I work for, making a hundred thousand dollars a year. Why should they work at a school for thirty-five to forty thousand dollars if they could get a job here at a hundred thousand dollars a year?

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  Jobs, Teaching, School

  "P. Diddy - Likely Wrong Choice for Howard U. Commencement Address" by Morris W. O’Kelly, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 22, 2014.

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• We wanted to more richly experience why we were alive, not just make a better life, and so people went in search of things. The great thing that came from those that time was to realize that there was definitely more to life than the materialism of the late sixties and early sixties. We were going in search of something deeper.

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  People, Alive, Realizing

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• Probably death is the best invention of life.

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  Invention

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• This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It's very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now?

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  Running, Years, Intellectual

  "Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs". Interview With David Sheff, reprints.longform.org. February 1985.

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• A lot of people think big business in America is a bad thing. I think it's a really good thing. Most people in business are ethical, hard-working, good people. And it's a meritocracy.

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  Business, Hard Work, Thinking

  "Steve Jobs: The Next Insanely Great Thing". Interview with Gary Wolf, www.wired.com. February 1, 1996.

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• With our technology, with objects, literally three people in a garage can blow away what 200 people at Microsoft can do. Literally can blow it away. Corporate America has a need that is so huge and can save them so much money, or make them so much money, or cost them so much money if they miss it, that they are going to fuel the object revolution.

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  Blow, Technology, America

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• It's understandable that the music companies that are comprised of people that are successful by making good creative decisions - they have to decide which out of fifty artists is the next hot one, with no data to go from. It's an intuitive process, and that's what they do well when they're successful. They don't understand technology.

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  Successful, Artist, Technology

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Our approach is to think of companies not as businesses but as collections of people. We [Apple]want to qualitatively change the way people work. We don't just want to help them do word processing faster or add numbers faster. We want to change the way they can communicate with one another. We're seeing less paper flying around and more quality of communication.

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  Communication, Thinking, Apples

  Source: www.slate.com

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• We're not a media company. We don't own media. We don't own music. We don't own films or television. We're not a media company. We're just Apple.

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  Media, Apples, Television

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• A computer is the most incredible tool we've ever seen. It can be a writing tool, a communications center, a supercalculator, a planner, a filer and an artistic instrument all in one, just by being given new instructions, or software, to work from. There are no other tools that have the power and versatility of a computer.

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  Communication, Writing, Tools

  Interview with David Sheff, genius.com. February 1, 1985.

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• We try to use the talents we do have to express our deep feelings, to show our appreciation of all the contributions that came before us, and to add something to that flow. That's what's driven me.

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  Appreciation, Feelings, Trying

  "Walter Isaacson Great Innovators e-book boxed set: Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, Einstein". Book by Walter Isaacson, October 24, 2011.

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• The iPod is not a new category. Music is not new. It's not a speculative market. It's a very, very large market. It's been around for thousands of years and will be around as long as humans exist.

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  Years, Ipods, Long

  "Speaking Out: Apple's and Pixar's Steve Jobs". Interview, www.bloomberg.com. August 25, 2003.

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• What a computer is to me is it's the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with. It's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.

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  Science, Technology, Mind

  YouTube Channel "Michael Lawrence"/"Steve Jobs, "Computers are like a bicycle for our minds." - Michael Lawrence Films", www.youtube.com. June 01, 2006.

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• The manual for WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a novel, you have to read a novel - one that reads like a mystery to most people. They're not going to learn slash q-z any more than they're going to learn Morse code. That is what Macintosh is all about.

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  Writing, People, Pages

  "Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs". Interview With David Sheff, genius.com. February 1, 1985.

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• No one is going to buy a big phone.

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  Phones, Bigs

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• Apple stores are intended not just to move boxes, but to enrich lives.

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  Moving, Apples, Boxes

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• I think right now it's a battle for the mindshare of developers and for the mindshare of customers, and right now iPhone and Android are winning that battle.

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  Winning, Thinking, Iphone

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.51, Prabhat Prakashan

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