Quote

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

Tim Cook

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Tim Cook
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: November 1
Business Person
Businessperson
Computer Scientist
Engineer
Robertsdale
Alabama
Timothy Donald Cook
Timothy Cook
Timothy D. Cook
Tim Apple
Reasons
Leave
Found
Reason
Better
Things
Besides
World
Motive
Profit

More quotes by Tim Cook

Image
I think two people with strong points of view can appreciate each other even more.
Tim Cook
Image
The longer the meeting, the less is accomplished.
Tim Cook
Image
There's a lot of health information available on your smart phone. There's financial information. There's your conversations, there's business secrets. There's an enormous long list of things that there's probably more information about you on here than exists in your home, right. Which makes it a lot more valuable to all the bad guys out there.
Tim Cook
Image
With hacking getting more and more sophisticated, the hacking community has gone from the hobbyist in the basement to huge sophisticated companies that are essentially doing this, or groups of people or foreign agents inside and outside the United States.
Tim Cook
Image
Creativity is people who care enough to keep thinking about something until they find the simplest way to do it.
Tim Cook
Image
An acorn would never brag about giving shade.
Tim Cook
Image
In the long arc of time, you are only relevant if customers love you.
Tim Cook
Image
Right to privacy is really important. You pull that brick out and another and pretty soon the house falls.
Tim Cook
Image
You want to be the pebble in the pond that creates the ripples for change.
Tim Cook
Image
Discrimination, in all its forms, is bad for business.
Tim Cook
Image
I learned that focus is key. Not just in your running a company, but in your personal life as well.
Tim Cook
Image
I'm not targeting government. I'm not saying hey, I'm closing it because I don't want to give you any data. I'm saying that to protect out customers, we have to encrypt. And a side affect of that is, I don't have the data.
Tim Cook
Image
I believe that if you took privacy and you said, I'm willing to give up all of my privacy to be secure. So you weighted it as a zero. My own view is that encryption is a much better, much better world. And I'm not the only person that thinks that.
Tim Cook
Image
There’s something very dangerous happening in states across the country. A wave of legislation, introduced in more than two dozen states, would allow people to discriminate against their neighbors.
Tim Cook
Image
That brings us to iPad. We think the iPad is the poster-child of the post-PC world.
Tim Cook
Image
The sidelines are not where you want to live your life. The world needs you in the arena!
Tim Cook
Image
Price is rarely the most important thing. A cheap product might sell some units. Somebody gets it home and they feel great when they pay the money, but then they get it home and use it and the joy is gone.
Tim Cook
Image
I am confident our best years lie ahead of us and that together we will continue to make Apple the magical place that it is.
Tim Cook
Image
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.
Tim Cook
Image
The government should always be the one defending civil liberties.
Tim Cook