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We do a lot of things for reasons besides profit motive. We want to leave the world better than we found it.

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Tim Cook
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: November 1
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No matter what you do next, the world needs your energy, your passion, your impatience for progress. Don't shrink from risk. And tune out those critics and cynics. History rarely yields to one person, but think, and never forget, what happens when it does. That can be you. That should be you. That must be you.
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Discrimination, in all its forms, is bad for business.
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Eighty percent of our revenues are from products that didn’t exist 60 days ago. Is there any other company that would do that?
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Graduates, your values matter. They are your north star. And work takes on new meaning when you feel you're pointed in the right direction. Otherwise, it's just a job. And life is too short for that.
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My business is not reading your messages. I don't have a business doing that. And it's against my values to do that. I don't want to read your private stuff.
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Android dominates the mobile malware market.
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Honestly, we’ll compete with everybody. I love competition. As long as people invent their own stuff, I love competition.
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You want to be the pebble in the pond that creates the ripples for change.
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Our whole goal in life is to give you something you didn’t know you wanted and then once you get it, you can’t imagine your life without it… and you can count on apple doing that.
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Our new watches are made entirely of double super gold. They are just a piece of gold that you can wear to the left, right, or directly on top of the other gold you own.
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You can't have a back door that's only for the good guys.
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Gaming has kind of evolved a bit. More people play on portable devices. Where we might go in the future, we'll see. Customers love games. I'm not interested in being in the console business in what is thought of as traditional gaming. But Apple is a big player today and things in the future will only make that bigger.
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In the long arc of time, you are only relevant if customers love you.
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The reality is, is that we love competition, at Apple. We think it makes us all better. But we want people to invent their own stuff.
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We sold more iPads in the last quarter alone than any PC manufacturer sold in their entire line.
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The longer the meeting, the less is accomplished.
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Let your joy be in your journey, not in some distant goal.
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I don't own encryption, Apple doesn't own encryption. Encryption, as you know, is everywhere. In fact some of encryption is funded by our government.
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When I go into my living room and turn on the TV, I feel like I have gone backwards in time by 20 to 30 years. It's an area of intense interest. I can't say more than that.
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A few years ago, users of Internet services began to realize that when an online service is free, you're not the customer. You're the product.
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