“I don’t have any skeletons in my closet that can’t be allowed out.” — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Look, Steve, you’re my best friend, and Apple is your company. I’ll do whatever you want.” — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Steve Jobs was never going to let Flash on any Apple product again like that after in 1997 - he's got a… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“You should never start a company with the goal of getting rich. Your goal should be making something you believe in and… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“By 2001 Apple had revived its personal computer offerings. It was now time to think different. A set of new possibilities topped… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Asked about the fact that Apple's iTunes software for Windows computers was extremely popular, Jobs joked, 'It's like giving a glass of… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
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“More than that, the iPod became the essence of everything Apple was destined to be: poetry connected to engineering, arts and creativity… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Not since the original Mac had a clarity of product vision so propelled a company into the future. " If anybody was… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
I was on one of my fruitarian diets" Steve Jobs recalled "I had just comeback from the apple farm. It sounded fun,… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Some people say, "Give the customers what they want." But that's not my approach. Out job is to figure out what they're… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“nowadays sound embarrassing. Jobs wanted Apple “to become a wonderful consumer products company,” Sculley wrote. “This was a lunatic plan. . .… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“The reason Apple resonates with people is that there’s a deep current of humanity in our innovation. I think great artists and… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Apple went public the morning of December 12, 1980. By then the bankers had priced the stock at $ 22 a share.… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Tim Cook When Steve Jobs returned to Apple and produced the “Think Different” ads and the iMac in his first year, it… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Google, you fucking ripped off the iPhone, wholesale ripped us off. Grand theft. I will spend my last dying breath if I… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Steve Jobs thus became the greatest business executive of our era, the one most certain to be remembered a century from now.… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
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“As part of the deal, Dylan appeared in a television ad for the iPod, featuring his new album, Modern Times. This was… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“When Jobs was losing his footing at Apple in the summer of 1985, he went for a walk with Alan Kay, who… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“I never worried about money. I grew up in a middle-class family, so I never thought I would starve. And I learned… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Was [Steve Jobs] smart? No, not exceptionally. Instead, he was a genius. His imaginative leaps were instinctive, unexpected, and at times magical.… — 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
![“Walter Issacson biographer of Steve Jobs: I remember sitting in his backyard in his garden, one day, and he started talking about God. He [Jobs] said, “ Sometimes I believe in God, sometimes I don’t. I think it’s 50/50, maybe. But ever since I’ve had cancer, I’ve been thinking about it more, and I…” quote by Walter Isaacson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/07e/walter-isaacson-384_after-life_walter-issacson-biographer-of-steve-jobs_1200413.png)
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