Arthur Rock Quotes

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• You know, a lot of people are just interested in, in building a company so they can make money and get out.
• And what I'm interested in is investing in people.
• Steve Jobs is a national treasure. He is so visionary, and so bright. I had to fire him, though.
• So I, I knew something in a business sense about semiconductors and I appreciated their possibilities.
• People come in with business plans and, I mean I know that no one is going to meet everything they say in a business plan…
• Killing Intel, I, I just had to resign from the Apple Board.
• The cost of a semiconductor chip fabrication plant doubles every four years.
• My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation.
• I mean I wasn't a founder in the sense that I contributed anything scientifically but in the sense that I signed the corporation papers and,…
• Well, I was born and raised in Rochester, New York.
• Which, the first meeting with anybody is, you know, everybody is on their best behavior. It's only after you get to know them for a…
• And we invested three hundred thousand dollars, became the lead investor and I became Chairman of the Board of Scientific Data Systems, as I was…
• IBM decided they were going to enter the copying business in 1968.
• I think they, Peter McCullough was, turns out was not a good CEO.
• And then lo and behold IBM, Apple and Motorola took an ad in all the newspapers, double page ad, and said, announcing the chip that…
• I was one of the founders in, in that, the three of us all had the, had the founder's stock.

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