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Steve Jobs admires Mark Zuckerberg for not selling out and for wanting to build a real company. He warns that many startups lose focus on product quality once sales and marketing dominate. He also stresses that a company’s first ten people shape its future and that Apple never calls itself a media company.

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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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I admire Mark Zuckerberg... for not selling out, for wanting to make a company. I admire that a lot.

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Somewhere between the janitor and the CEO, reasons stop mattering.

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Making an enduring company was both harder and more important than making a great product.

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How can you get fired from the company you started?

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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…

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I try to get people to see what I have. . . . When you run a computer company, you have to…

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I'd say we [Apple Inc.] are the most creative of the technology companies and definitely the most artist-friendly. Almost everyone in the…

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We're gambling on our vision, and we would rather do that than make "me too" products. Let some other companies do that.…

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If I knew in 1986 how much it was going to cost to keep Pixar going, I doubt if I would have…

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Companies must have a noble cause, and it's the leaders job to transform that noble cause into such an inspiring vision, that…

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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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To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot…

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Well, Apple invented the PC as we know it, and then it invented the graphical user interface as we know it eight…

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Marketing is about values. It's a complicated and noisy world, and we're not going to get a chance to get people to…

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The system is that there is no system. That doesn't mean we don't have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and…

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We had the hardware expertise, the industrial design expertise and the software expertise, including iTunes. One of the biggest insights we have…

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The good music companies do an amazing thing. They have people who can pick the person that's gonna be successful out of…

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It's not about charisma and personality, it's about results and products and those very bedrock things that are why people at Apple…

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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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It's understandable that the music companies that are comprised of people that are successful by making good creative decisions - they have…

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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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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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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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You know, Dr. Edwin Land was a troublemaker. He dropped out of Harvard and founded Polaroid. Not only was he one of…

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We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life.…

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The system is that there is no system. That doesn't mean we don't have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and…

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Pixar is the most technically advanced creative company; Apple is the most creatively advanced technical company.

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I can help the next generation remember the lineage of great companies here and how to continue the tradition. The Valley has…

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Music companies are not technology companies any more than technology companies are music companies. They're really different from each other.

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One of the failures of technology companies is that they build technologies thinking everything else will work out.

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Apple is the only company in the world that has all of that under one roof. We can invent a complete a…

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My opinion is that the only two computer companies that are software-driven are Apple and NeXT, and I wonder about Apple.

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Woz and I started Apple in my parents' garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had…

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When companies get bigger they try to replicate their success. But they assume their magic came from process. They try to use…

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That's what Walt Disney did, and Hewlett and Packard, and the people who built Intel. They created a company to last, not…

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Apple has some tremendous assets, but I believe without some attention, the company could, could, could - I'm searching for the right…

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Many companies forget what it means to make great products. After initial success, sales and marketing people take over and the product…

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There's a lot of symbolism to your return. Is that going to be enough to reinvigorate the company with a sense of…

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It is hard to think that a $2 billion company with 4,300-plus people couldn't compete with six people in blue jeans.

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