Industry Quotes by Steve Jobs

8 Industry quotes by Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs’ iconic vision is captured in eight succinct lines about industry. This short collection gives a taste of his forward‑thinking mindset.

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The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That's over. Apple lost. The desktop…

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The creative industries tend to dismiss technology as just something to buy and not understand how hard it is and how creative…

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I was lucky to get into computers when it was a very young and idealistic industry. There weren't many degrees offered in…

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A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they…

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If Macintosh hadn't been successful, then I should have just thrown in the towel, because my vision of the whole industry would…

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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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People say sometimes, "You work in the fastest-moving industry in the world." I don't feel that way. I think I work in…

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It's like when IBM drove a lot of innovation out of the computer industry before the microprocessor came along. Eventually, Microsoft will…

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Who wants a stylus. You have to get em and put em away, and you lose em. Yuck. Nobody wants a stylus.

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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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“Innovation is not about saying yes to everything. It's about saying NO to all but the most crucial features.”

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I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple's CEO, I…

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When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop…

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I'm not dismissing the value of higher education; I'm simply saying it comes at the expense of experience.

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“To YoYo Ma: "You playing is the best argument I've ever heard for the existence of God, because I don't really believe a human…

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The most important thing is a person. A person who incites your curiosity and feeds your curiosity; and machines cannot do that in the…

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The tragedy is that Dell didn't win it - we lost it.

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“I think great artists and great engineers are similar, in that they both have a desire to express themselves. In fact some of the…

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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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We're going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will…

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