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Tim Cook
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: November 1
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In the long arc of time, you are only relevant if customers love you.
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I don't think Apple has to own a content business.
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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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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're very simple people at Apple. We focus on making the world's best products and enriching people's lives.
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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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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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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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Since these early days, I have seen and have experienced many types of discrimination and all of them were rooted in the fear of people that were different than the majority.
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No one should have a key that turns a billion locks. It shouldn't exist.
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Intuition is critical in virtually everything you do. But, without relentless preparation and execution, it is meaningless.
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Most business models have focused on self interest instead of user experience. Those are the kinds of problems we solve to solve.
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You want to be the pebble in the pond that creates the ripples for change.
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A great product isn't just a collection of features. It's how it all works together.
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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.
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Creativity is people who care enough to keep thinking about something until they find the simplest way to do it.
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It's the privilege of a lifetime for me to work with the most innovative people on Earth.
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