Pretend to be completely in control and people will assume that you are. — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Most innovation comes from people working together, collaborating in teams. — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box. — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Mainly, the reason people who didn't succeed had trouble because they had trouble forming teams. They didn't know how to collaborate. — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
But the point is to get a whole new generation of people and people in general more re-engaged in news, and this… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
I think when you're looking for people to interview, you want to make it fair and honest. You're not just bringing people… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Yeah, I think that his great creation was not any one product but a company in which creativity was connected to great… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
I think it's really good that you have great competition among news networks, and for that matter all the networks in general.… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
The older I get, the more I see how much motivations matter. The Zune was crappy because the people at Microsoft don’t… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering. — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
I think it is valuable and should be valued by its consumers. Charging for content forces discipline on journalists: they must produce… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Jobs insisted that Apple focus on just two or three priorities at a time. “There is no one better at turning off… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
If you want to be a great American, you have got to understand Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, how the American… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
He had the uncanny capacity to know exactly what your weak point is, know what will make you feel small, to make… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
It seems perverse to focus too much on the casualties or hardship in Afghanistan ...[Showing the misery of Afghanistan ran the risk… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
I think America is really well-positioned, because we do train people to be creative and sometimes resist authority, which helps in being… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
The people who invented the twenty-first century were pot-smoking, sandal-wearing hippies from the West Coast like Steve, because they saw differently,” he… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Leonardo da Vinci was comfortable being illegitimate, gay, a misfit, a heretic. But he also respected other people. He didn't get into… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Throughout his life, Albert Einstein would retain the intuition and the awe of a child. He never lost his sense of wonder… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
On Startups: "I hate it when people call themselves "entrepreneurs" when what they're really trying to do is launch a startup and… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“he never finished any of the works he began because, so sublime was his idea of art, he saw faults even in the things… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share
He had the attitude that he could do anything, and therefore so can you. He put his life in my hands. So that made… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share
But the point is to get a whole new generation of people and people in general more re-engaged in news, and this has happened… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share
“Jobs's intensity was also evident in his ability to focus. He would set priorities, aim his laser attention on them, and filter out distractions.… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share
“Atop the brochure McKenna put a maxim, often attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, that would become the defining precept of Jobs’s design philosophy: “Simplicity… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share
“You have to remain critically vigilant.” Question every premise, challenge conventional wisdom, and never accept the truth of something merely because everyone else views… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share
“in 1996, bought NeXT, bringing Jobs back. BILL ATKINSON. Early Apple employee, developed graphics for the Macintosh. CHRISANN BRENNAN. Jobs’s girlfriend at Homestead High,… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share
“The last time there was this much excitement about a tablet, it had some commandments written on it.” — Walter Isaacson Copy Share
“If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share
“There was a key lesson for innovation: Understand which industries are symbiotic so that you can capitalize on how they will spur each other… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share
“CEO Gil Amelio stumbled. Ellison may have been baffled when Jobs insisted that he was not motivated by money, but it was partly true.… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share
“Once a year Jobs took his most valuable employees on a retreat, which he called " The Top 100." They were picked based on… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share
“An object will display the greatest difference of light and shade when it is seen in the strongest light. . . . But this… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share
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