Making an enduring company was both harder and more important than making a great product. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
I admire Mark Zuckerberg... for not selling out, for wanting to make a company. I admire that a lot. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
When you’re in a startup, the first ten people will determine whether the company succeeds or not. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
One of the failures of technology companies is that they build technologies thinking everything else will work out. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
My opinion is that the only two computer companies that are software-driven are Apple and NeXT, and I wonder about Apple. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Apple is the only company in the world that has all of that under one roof. We can invent a complete a… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Woz and I started Apple in my parents' garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Pixar is the most technically advanced creative company; Apple is the most creatively advanced technical company. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
The problem with the Internet startup craze isn’t that too many people are starting companies; it’s that too many people aren’t sticking… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
I can help the next generation remember the lineage of great companies here and how to continue the tradition. The Valley has… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
The engineering is long gone in most PC companies. In the consumer electronics companies, they don't understand the software parts of it.… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
I hate it when people call themselves 'entrepreneurs' when what they're really trying to do is launch a startup and then sell… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
I was actually a fruitarian at that point in time. I ate only fruit. Now I'm a garbage can like everyone else.… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
We've had one of these before, when the dot-com bubble burst. What I told our company was that we were just going… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
When you're in a start-up, the first ten people will determine whether the company succeeds or not. Each is 10 percent of… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
We had the hardware expertise, the industrial design expertise and the software expertise, including iTunes. One of the biggest insights we have… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
It's not about charisma and personality, it's about results and products and those very bedrock things that are why people at Apple… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
The good music companies do an amazing thing. They have people who can pick the person that's gonna be successful out of… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
I'm sure a lot of you had this experience when you're changing. You're growing as a person and people tend to treat… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Companies, as they grow to become multi-billion-dollar entities, somehow lose their vision. They insert lots of layers of middle management between the… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
You're missing it. This is not a one-man show. What's reinvigorating this company is two things: One, there's a lot of really… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
The system is that there is no system. That doesn't mean we don't have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life.… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
You know, Dr. Edwin Land was a troublemaker. He dropped out of Harvard and founded Polaroid. Not only was he one of… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Music companies are not technology companies any more than technology companies are music companies. They're really different from each other. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
We're gambling on our vision, and we would rather do that than make "me too" products. Let some other companies do that.… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
I'd say we [Apple Inc.] are the most creative of the technology companies and definitely the most artist-friendly. Almost everyone in the… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
If I knew in 1986 how much it was going to cost to keep Pixar going, I doubt if I would have… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Companies must have a noble cause, and it's the leaders job to transform that noble cause into such an inspiring vision, that… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
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… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
I try to get people to see what I have. . . . When you run a computer company, you have to… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
It is hard to think that a $2 billion company with 4,300-plus people couldn't compete with six people in blue jeans. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Many companies forget what it means to make great products. After initial success, sales and marketing people take over and the product… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
There's a lot of symbolism to your return. Is that going to be enough to reinvigorate the company with a sense of… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
When companies get bigger they try to replicate their success. But they assume their magic came from process. They try to use… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
That's what Walt Disney did, and Hewlett and Packard, and the people who built Intel. They created a company to last, not… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Apple has some tremendous assets, but I believe without some attention, the company could, could, could - I'm searching for the right… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Who wants a stylus. You have to get em and put em away, and you lose em. Yuck. Nobody wants a stylus. — Steve Jobs Copy Share
The reason that Apple is able to create products like iPad is because we always try to be at the intersection of technology and… — Steve Jobs Copy Share
I admire Mark Zuckerberg... for not selling out, for wanting to make a company. I admire that a lot. — Steve Jobs Copy Share
If you want to hire great people and have them stay, you have to be run by ideas, not hierarchy. The best ideas have… — Steve Jobs Copy Share
Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you… — Steve Jobs Copy Share
“Innovation is not about saying yes to everything. It's about saying NO to all but the most crucial features.” — Steve Jobs Copy Share
I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple's CEO, I… — Steve Jobs Copy Share
When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop… — Steve Jobs Copy Share
I'm not dismissing the value of higher education; I'm simply saying it comes at the expense of experience. — Steve Jobs Copy Share
“To YoYo Ma: "You playing is the best argument I've ever heard for the existence of God, because I don't really believe a human… — Steve Jobs Copy Share
The most important thing is a person. A person who incites your curiosity and feeds your curiosity; and machines cannot do that in the… — Steve Jobs Copy Share
“I think great artists and great engineers are similar, in that they both have a desire to express themselves. In fact some of the… — Steve Jobs Copy Share
It's rare that you see an artist in his 30s or 40s able to really contribute something amazing. — Steve Jobs Copy Share
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… — Steve Jobs Copy Share
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