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If I knew in 1986 how much it was going to cost to keep Pixar going, I doubt if I would have bought the company.
Steve Jobs
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Steve Jobs
Age: 56 †
Born: 1955
Born: February 24
Died: 2011
Died: October 5
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Steven Paul Jobs
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As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what's happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don't seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.
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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 think death is the most wonderful invention of life. It purges the system of these old models that are obsolete.
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I feel like somebody just punched me in the stomach and knocked all my wind out. I'm only 30 years old and I want to have a chance to continue creating things. I know I've got at least one more great computer in me. And Apple is not going to give me a chance to do that.
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If you define the problem correctly, you almost have the solution.
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Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.
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We're gambling on our vision, and we would rather do that than make me too products. Let some other companies do that. For us, it's always the next dream.
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Don't settle, as with all matters of the heart you'll know when you find it
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We try to use the talents we do have to express our deep feelings, to show our appreciation of all the contributions that came before us, and to add something to that flow. That's what's driven me.
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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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Much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.
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The hardest thing when you think about focusing. You think focusing is about saying Yes. No. Focusing is about saying No. And when you say No, you piss off people.
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The engineering is long gone in most PC companies. In the consumer electronics companies, they don't understand the software parts of it. And so you really can't make the products that you can make at Apple anywhere else right now. Apple's the only company that has everything under one roof.
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I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year. It's very character-building.
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We're not a media company. We don't own media. We don't own music. We don't own films or television. We're not a media company. We're just Apple.
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Great engineers are a huge multiplier.
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I was lucky to get into computers when it was a very young and idealistic industry. There weren't many degrees offered in computer science, so people in computers were brilliant people from mathematics, physics, music, zoology, whatever. They loved it, and no one was really in it for the money.
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I dropped out of Reed College [Portland, Oregon] after the first six months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?
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The design of the Mac wasn't what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it's all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it.
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