Bells Quote by Walter Isaacson

Did Alexander Graham Bell do any market research before he invented the telephone?

— Walter Isaacson

“Alexander Graham Bell was said to have made the following entirely endearing remark soon after he had invented the telephone: ‘I do not think…

— Stephen Fry

“In 1894 Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone patents expired. Within a few years, over 6,000 local telephone companies were competing for the U.S. market.”

— William Poundstone

“In his Apple office, 1982: Asked if he wanted to do market research, he said, “No, because customers don’t know what they want until…

— Walter Isaacson

Man, he could sell. As he liked to say, he lived at the intersection of technology and liberal arts. But there was a more…

— Walt Mossberg

I don't think Steve [Jobs] started Apple as a scam. But he understood early on the power of marketing. The idea of the computer…

— Alex Gibney

Jobs would have ever have asserted that Bill Gates was not serious about technology. He was a huge pioneer in that world, albeit doing…

— Alex Gibney

“Speaking of Jobs, Moritz writes: “He was unwilling to let product planning become burdened with analysis, focus groups, decision trees, the shifts of the…

— Adam Lashinsky

“Finally Jobs proposed Apple Computer. “I was on one of my fruitarian diets,” he explained. “I had just come back from the apple farm.…

— Steve Jobs

“There are too many famous Steve Jobs anecdotes to count, but several of them revolve around one theme: his unwillingness to leave well enough…

— Ryan Holiday

“the months leading up to the start of his visionary company, Steve Jobs was something of a conflicted young man, seeking spiritual enlightenment and…

— Cal Newport

Steve Jobs did not start started Apple as a scam. But he understood early on the power of marketing. The idea of the computer…

— Alex Gibney