Quote by Walter Isaacson Download Open image ““Won’t Work.” Apple’s former chief financial officer,”” — Walter Isaacson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“When Jobs returned to Apple in 1997, Michael Dell had declared he had so little faith in an Apple recovery that if he were… — Fred Vogelstein Copy Share Image
“a great company stay great without its visionary leader? I thought that if any company could, it would be Apple.” — Yukari Iwatani Kane Copy Share Image
“If Apple is going to succeed, he told me, we’re going to win on innovation. And you can’t win on innovation unless you have… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Managers at all levels of Apple said they rarely were pressed for any kind of financial analysis or to defend decisions based on potential… — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
There is a Steve [Jobs] that Apple would like to actually present to the public. They have a character, Steve, and they want to… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
Apple was very close to bankruptcy and to irrelevance [but] you learn a lot about life through death, and I learnt a lot about… — Jonathan Ive Copy Share Image
“Look, Steve, you’re my best friend, and Apple is your company. I’ll do whatever you want.” — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Steve’s talked about the goal of Apple, and the goal of Apple is not to make money but to make really nice products, really… — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
“Apple says, 'If i ain't broke, say it's obsolete, change the way it looks, and sell it again.” — Jonathan Cupak Copy Share Image
We've had one of these before, when the dot-com bubble burst. What I told our company was that we were just going to invest… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
A lot of people thought Steve Jobs was a CEO of Apple but he never was until he came back to Apple in 1997. — Andy Hertzfeld Copy Share Image
“he never finished any of the works he began because, so sublime was his idea of art, he saw faults even in the things… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
He had the attitude that he could do anything, and therefore so can you. He put his life in my hands. So that made… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
But the point is to get a whole new generation of people and people in general more re-engaged in news, and this has happened… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Jobs's intensity was also evident in his ability to focus. He would set priorities, aim his laser attention on them, and filter out distractions.… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Atop the brochure McKenna put a maxim, often attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, that would become the defining precept of Jobs’s design philosophy: “Simplicity… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“You have to remain critically vigilant.” Question every premise, challenge conventional wisdom, and never accept the truth of something merely because everyone else views… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“in 1996, bought NeXT, bringing Jobs back. BILL ATKINSON. Early Apple employee, developed graphics for the Macintosh. CHRISANN BRENNAN. Jobs’s girlfriend at Homestead High,… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“The last time there was this much excitement about a tablet, it had some commandments written on it.” — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“There was a key lesson for innovation: Understand which industries are symbiotic so that you can capitalize on how they will spur each other… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image