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Steve Jobs
Age: 56 †
Born: 1955
Born: February 24
Died: 2011
Died: October 5
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iMac is next year's computer for $1,299, not last year's computer for $999.
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Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.
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Our friends up north spend over five billion dollars on research and development and all they seem to do is copy Google and Apple.
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Apple's goal isn't to make money. Our goal is to design and develop and bring to market good products... We trust as a consequence of that, people will like them, and as another consequence, we'll make some money. But we're really clear about what our goals are.
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Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help make the big choices in life. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.
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We had nothing to lose and everything to gain.
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If we don’t cannibalize ourselves, someone else will.
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We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.
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Learn continually - there's always one more thing to learn!
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One way to drive fear out of a relationship is to realize that your partner's values are the same as yours, that what you care about is exactly what they care about. In my opinion, that drives fear out and makes for a great partnership, whether it's a corporate partnership or a marriage.
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I think the Macintosh was created by a group of people who felt that ah there wasn't a strict vision between sort of science and art.
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None of us are as creative as all of us.
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The creative industries tend to dismiss technology as just something to buy and not understand how hard it is and how creative it can be as well.
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Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
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Great engineers are a huge multiplier.
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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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Everything is important- that success is in the details.
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I think this is the start of something really big. Sometimes that first step is the hardest one, and we've just taken it.
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Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
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It's the disease of thinking that a having a great idea is really 90% of the work. And if you just tell people, 'here's this great idea,' then of course they can go off and make it happen. The problem with that is that there's a tremendous amount of craftsmanship between a having a great idea and having a great product.
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