Steve Jobs Quotes

• Well, Apple invented the PC as we know it, and then it invented the graphical user interface as we know it eight years later (with the introduction of the Mac). But then, the company had a decade in which it took a nap.

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Later, Took

• 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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  Topics in Future, Stupid

  Tags in Allow

• We’re just enthusiastic about what we do.

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• We’re going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact.

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  Topics in Computer

  Tags in Certain, Happen, Action

• We want to reinvent the phone. What’s the killer app? The killer app is making calls! It’s amazing how hard it is to make calls on most phones. We want to let you use contacts like never before – sync your iPhone with your PC or mac.

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Reinvent, Making

• We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn’t build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren’t going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Group, Build, Judge

• We think Android is very, very fragmented, and becoming more fragmented by the day. And as you know, Apple strives for the integrated model so that the user isn’t forced to be the systems integrator.

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Model, Apple

• We made the buttons on the screen look so good you’ll want to lick them.

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  Tags in Lick

• We hire people who want to make the best things in the world.

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  Tags in Hire

• We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we’ve chosen to do with our life.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Chance

• To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

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  Tags in Interesting, Ideas, Company

• 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?

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Revolution, Information, Today

• This is what customers pay us for – to sweat all these details so it’s easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We’re supposed to be really good at this. That doesn’t mean we don’t listen to customers, but it’s hard for them to tell you what they want when they’ve never seen anything remotely like it.

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Pay, Easy, Listen

• Things don’t have to change the world to be important.

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  Tags in Change

• These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I’m not downplaying that.

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  Topics in Influence

  Tags in Information, Touch

• There’s no other company that could make a MacBook Air and the reason is that not only do we control the hardware, but we control the operating system. And it is the intimate interaction between the operating system and the hardware that allows us to do that. There is no intimate interaction between Windows and a Dell notebook.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in System, Company, Control

• The system is that there is no system. That doesn’t mean we don’t have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that’s not what it’s about. Process makes you more efficient.

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  Tags in Process, System

• The seven-inch tablets are tweeners: too big to compete with a smartphone, and too small to compete with an iPad.

  Steve Jobs

  Tags in Incompetent, Compete

• The reason we wouldn’t make a seven-inch tablet isn’t because we don’t want to hit a price point, it’s because we don’t think you can make a great tablet with a seven-inch screen.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Point, Price

• The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.

  Steve Jobs

  Topics in Job

Steve Jobs (116)

Birth:	24th February, 1955
Death:	5th October, 2011
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, Entrepreneur, Founder

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