Jobs Quotes by Walter Isaacson

“Jobs barked at him.”

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Steve Jobs: “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

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I've asked Jobs why he didn't get an operation then and he said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened. I…

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I discovered that the best innovation is sometimes the company, the way you organize a company. The whole notion of how you…

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I am a fruitarian and I will only eat leaves picked by virgins in the moonlight - Steve Jobs

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Asked about the fact that Apple's iTunes software for Windows computers was extremely popular, Jobs joked, 'It's like giving a glass of…

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Without Steve Jobs, you would have well-designed computers, probably open and not integrated, but they wouldn't have sex appeal, they wouldn't have…

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I think that genius comes not just from having great mental processing power. It comes from being able to, as Steve Jobs'…

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He said, 'From then on, I realized that I was not just abandoned. I was chosen. I was special.' And I think…

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“Everything you’ve ever done in your life is shit,” Jobs said, “so why don’t you come work for me?”

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You should never start a company with the goal of getting rich. Your goal should be making something you believe in and…

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Jobs did not know that Sculley had told Eisenstat he wanted to quit, but by then it didn't matter. Overnight, he had…

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Jobs has within him sort of this conflict, but he doesn't quite see it as a conflict between being hippie-ish and anti-materialistic…

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Not playing by the rules, not seeing things conventionally, that's the heart of who he [ Steve Jobs] is, and he does…

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By the end of his career, he [Steve Jobs] has proven that he can do the impossible, and he has gathered probably…

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On the day he unveiled the Macintosh, a reporter from Popular Science asked Jobs what type of market research he had done.…

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Jobs insisted that Apple focus on just two or three priorities at a time. “There is no one better at turning off…

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More generally, I made an effort to leave out things that weren't relevant to the main narrative themes of the book, namely…

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Ed Woolard, his mentor on the Apple board, pressed Jobs for more than two years to drop the interim in front of…

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I have my own theory about why decline happens at companies like IBM or Microsoft. The company does a great job, innovates…

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I was on one of my fruitarian diets" Steve Jobs recalled "I had just comeback from the apple farm. It sounded fun,…

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“If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much.…

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I think different religions are different doors to the same house. Sometimes I think the house exists, and sometimes I don’t. It’s…

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Steve Jobs was never going to let Flash on any Apple product again like that after in 1997 - he's got a…

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I visited Jobs for the last time in his Palo Alto, Calif., home. He had moved to a downstairs bedroom because he…

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The childhood that Paul and Clara Jobs created for their new son was, in many ways, a stereotype of the late 1950s.…

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