“Jobs's intensity was also evident in his ability to focus. He would set priorities, aim his laser attention on them, and filter… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Once a year Jobs took his most valuable employees on a retreat, which he called " The Top 100." They were picked… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“One of Job's great strengths was knowing how to focus. " Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Jobs liked to tell the story- and he did so to his team that day- about how everything that he had done… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“His goal was to be vigilant against " the bozo explosion" that leads to a company's being larded with second rate talent:… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Jobs described Mike Markkula's maxim that a good company must "impute"- it must convey its values and importance in everything it does,… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“In ancient Rome, when a victorious general paraded through the streets, legend has it that he was sometimes trailed by a servant… — 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
“The key venue for freewheeling discourse was the Monday morning executive team gathering, which started at 9 and went for three or… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Jobs also used the meetings to enforce focus. At Robert Friedland's farm, his job had been to prune the apple trees so… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“There would be times when we'd rack our brains on a user interface problem, and think we'd considered every option, and he… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“One of Job's business rules was to never be afraid of cannibalizing yourself. " If you don't cannibalize yourself, someone else will,"… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“The unified field theory that ties together Jobs personality and products begins with his most salient trait: his intensity. His silences could… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Still allergic to PowerPoints and formal presentations, he insisted that the people around the table hash out issues from various vantages and… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Most people have a regulator between their mind and mouth that modulates their brutish sentiments and spikiest impulses. Not Jobs. He made… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“We kind of missed the boat on that," he recalled. " So we needed to catch up real fast." The mark of… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Bob Iger, Disney's chief operating officer, had to step in and do damage control. He was as sensible and solid as those… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Jobs and Clow agreed that Apple was one of the great brands of the world, probably in the top five based on… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“One sticking point was that Jobs wanted his payout to be in cash. Amelio insisted that he needed to "have skin in… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“One of his motivating passions was to build a lasting company. At age twelve, when he got a summer job at Hewlett-Packard,… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Edwin Land of Polaroid talked about the intersection of the humanities and science. I like that intersection. There's something magical about that… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“The last time there was this much excitement about a tablet, it had some commandments written on it.” — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
