The Business Wisdom of Steve Jobs: 250 Quotes from the Innovator Who Changed the World
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Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogmawhich is living with the results of other people’s thinking.”
We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.”
The cure for Apple is not cost-cutting. The cure for Apple is to innovate its way out of its current predicament.”
Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everythingall external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failurethese things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.”
Alan Ken Thomas
Alan Ken Thomas is a graduate of Union College, has worked both newspaper publishing and book publishing. He lives and works in Schenectady, New York.
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The Business Wisdom of Steve Jobs - Alan Ken Thomas
The Business Wisdom of
Steve Jobs
The Business Wisdom of Steve Jobs
250 Quotes from the Innovator Who Changed the World
Edited by Alan Ken Thomas
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Contents
Introduction
On Beginnings
On Business
On Leadership
On Innovation
On Everyone Else
On Technology
On Drive
On Legacy
On Life
Introduction
Even in death, people remain divided over Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple Inc. and known to the world as the man behind the iMac, iPod, iPhone and iPad.
To some, Jobs was a man who changed the world for the better, an inventor and entrepreneur whose impact on daily life is immeasurable. To others, Jobs was a false idol, the symbol of everything wrong with a business playing its cards close to the chest. Everyone had an opinion about him.
But he wasn’t always the center of attention. Steven Paul Jobs, born in San Francisco in 1955 and adopted and raised by Paul and Clara Jobs, was in fact a college dropout who found his lack of higher education hindering his path into the technology business. He eventually found work at burgeoning videogame company Atari, Inc., and it was around this time that he met Steve Wozniak.
It was a small humble beginning: Jobs, Wozniak and third partner Ronald Wayne founded Apple in 1976. A year later the Apple II
was released to some success, but it wasn’t until 1984, with a Superbowl ad and the release of the Macintosh
that Apple really began the first of two creative and financial ascensions.
By all accounts, Jobs was a brilliant but difficult creative thinker, someone motivated by the idea that the simpler the design and the easier to use, the better the product. But his unorthodox ideas and ambitions eventually forced his resignation from Apple amidst power grabs over the company’s board of directors and executives.
He left in 1985, and given the full history of the company, it’s telling that in his absence Apple began to stagnate in innovation and products,