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Steve Jobs
Age: 56 †
Born: 1955
Born: February 24
Died: 2011
Died: October 5
Computer Scientist
Designer
Engineer
Entrepreneur
Executive Producer
Film Producer
Financier
Inventor
San Francisco County
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Steven Paul Jobs
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First was the mouse. The second was the click wheel. And now, we're going to bring multi-touch to the market. And each of these revolutionary interfaces has made possible a revolutionary product - the Mac, the iPod and now the iPhone.
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My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better.
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You can't look at the competition and say you're going to do it better. You have to look at the competition and say you're going to do it differently.
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the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.
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Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity - not a threat
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Do not try to do everything. Do one thing well.
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Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.
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We think that computers are the most remarkable tools that humankind has ever come up with, and we think that people are basically tool users. So if we can just get lots of computers to lots of people, it will make some qualitative difference to the world.
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I try to get people to see what I have. . . . When you run a computer company, you have to get people to buy into your dreams.
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Pursue your dreams and see the opportunities in life's setbacks.
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That's what Walt Disney did, and Hewlett and Packard, and the people who built Intel. They created a company to last, not just to make money. That's what I want Apple to be.
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Manage the top line: your strategy, your people, and your products, and the bottom line will follow.
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The day I was born songs were on records, phones were tied down, computers needed rooms and the web was fiction. Change the world. You can.
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Listen to me. We're here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise why even be here?
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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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It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I'm still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.
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I can help the next generation remember the lineage of great companies here and how to continue the tradition. The Valley has been very supportive of me. I should do my best to repay.
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You've heard of plug-and-play. This is plug, unplug and play. It's so simple to use, it's unbelievable.
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It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.
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The seven-inch tablets are tweeners: too big to compete with a smartphone, and too small to compete with an iPad.
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