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Pretend to be completely in control and people will assume that you are.
Walter Isaacson
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Walter Isaacson
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: May 20
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I think that's exactly what Silicon Valley was all about in those days. Let's do a startup in our parents' garage and try to create a business.
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What are the five products you want to focus on? Get rid of the rest, because they’re dragging you down. They’re turning you into Microsoft. They’re causing you to turn out products that are adequate but not great.
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I am a fruitarian and I will only eat leaves picked by virgins in the moonlight - Steve Jobs
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What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.
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I discovered that the best innovation is sometimes the company, the way you organize a company. The whole notion of how you build a company is fascinating. Steve Jobs
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I've asked Jobs why he didn't get an operation then and he said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened... I didn't want to be violated in that way.'
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