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A team of musicians, poets, and historians helped make the Macintosh special, showing how diverse ideas can create great products. Jobs says the best ideas should win, not hierarchy, and that a person who sparks curiosity is more valuable than any machine. He also reminds us that simple solutions often emerge after we keep digging past the first complex attempts.

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Great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people.

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Older people sit down and ask, 'What is it?' but the boy asks, 'What can I do with it?'.

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Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

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

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It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

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Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there.

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When you’re in a startup, the first ten people will determine whether the company succeeds or not.

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The roots of apple were to build computers for people, not for corporations. The world doesn't need another dell or compaq.

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I think the Macintosh was created by a group of people who felt that ah there wasn't a strict vision between sort…

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People equated burning CDs with theft. That's not what burning CDs is. Theft is about acquiring the music from the Internet.

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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…

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I'm one of the few people who understands how producing technology requires intuition and creativity, and how producing something artistic takes real…

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I think PCs are going to be like trucks. Less people will need them. And this is going to make some people…

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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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Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change…

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The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide…

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When I went to school, it was right after the '60s and before this general wave of practical purposefulness had set in……

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When you're in a start-up, the first ten people will determine whether the company succeeds or not. Each is 10 percent of…

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Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM…

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Somebody once told me, ‘Manage the top line, and the bottom line will follow.’ What's the top line? It's things like, why…

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We've had one of these before, when the dot-com bubble burst. What I told our company was that we were just going…

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Be honest with yourself and with people always do everything on time. Never give up, go to your goals, even if all…

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As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned…

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At Apple, people are putting in 18-hour days. We attract a different type of person—a person who doesn’t want to wait five…

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Companies, as they grow to become multi-billion-dollar entities, somehow lose their vision. They insert lots of layers of middle management between the…

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When you grow up, you tend to get told that the world is the way it is, and your life is just…

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When you grow up you tend to get told that the world is the way it is and you're life is just…

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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…

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Ultimately, it comes down to taste. It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done…

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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…

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That's why I think death is the most wonderful invention of life. It purges the system of these old models that are…

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We believe people with Passion CAN change the World for the Better." -Steve Jobs

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Unfortunately, people are not rebelling against Microsoft. They don't know any better.

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You cannot mandate productivity, you must provide the tools to let people become their best.

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It's not a faith in technology. It's faith in people.

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A lot of time, people don't do great things becoz' great things really aren't expected of them.

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I hate the way people use PowerPoints instead of thinking

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Manage the top line: your strategy, your people, and your products, and the bottom line will follow.

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Don’t let the voice of other people’s opinion drown your inner voice.

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It's rare that you see an artist in his 30s or 40s able to really contribute something amazing.

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