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Steve Jobs
Age: 56 †
Born: 1955
Born: February 24
Died: 2011
Died: October 5
Computer Scientist
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Entrepreneur
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Film Producer
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Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet they know how to drive a car. You don't have to study physics to understand the laws of motion to drive a car. You don't have to understand any of this stuff to use Macintosh.
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You have to have a lot of passion for what you do... because if you don't, any rational person would give up.
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It's not the consumers' job to figure out what they want
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Innovation distinguishes a leader from a follower.
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My philosophy is that everything starts with a great product.
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Kick-start your brain. New ideas come from watching something, talking to people, experimenting, asking questions and getting out of the office!
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The subscription model of buying music is bankrupt. I think you could make available the Second Coming in a subscription model and it might not be successful.
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Apple is the only company in the world that has all of that under one roof. We can invent a complete a solution that works - and take responsibility for it.
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The real art is knowing what to leave out, not what to put in.
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You've got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology. You can't start with the technology and try to figure out where you're going to sell it.
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When you're a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you're not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You'll know it's there, so you're going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back.
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I always thought of myself as a humanities person as a kid, but I liked electronics. Then I read something that one of my heroes, Edwin Land of Polaroid, said about the importance of people who could stand at the intersection of humanities and sciences, and I decided that's what I wanted to do.
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Guess who surprised themselves and changed their minds.
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Apple stores are intended not just to move boxes, but to enrich lives.
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In most cases, strengths and weaknesses are two sides of the same coin. A strength in one situation is a weakness in another, yet often the person can't switch gears. It's a very subtle thing to talk about strengths and weaknesses because almost always they're the same thing.
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Making an enduring company was both harder and more important than making a great product.
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You should never go to a meeting or make a telephone call without a clear idea of what you are trying to achieve.
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I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates.
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Customers don't measure you on how hard you tried, they measure you on what you deliver.
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The world doesn't need another Dell or Compaq.
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