20 private quotes tagged apple

“Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?” — Steve Jobs

Context:Persuading John Sculley (then CEO of Pepsi) to become Apple's CEO

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“I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.” — Steve Jobs

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“Death is the best invention of life.” — Steve Jobs

Source:http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/7b7ae3-steve-jobs-inter...

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“Real artists ship.” — Steve Jobs

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“Very often design is the most immediate way of defining what products become in people's minds.” — Jonathon Ive

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“Less, but better.” — Dieter Rams

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“Learning to program teaches you how to think. Computer science is a liberal art.” — Steve Jobs

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“It's more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy.” — Steve Jobs

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“Microsoft didn't kill Linux on the Desktop... Apple did.” — CmdrTaco

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“Bring a timer.” — Steve Jobs

Context:To an outsider pushing for just "5 minutes of his time"

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“He believed in me. And I found that so empowering.” — Bill Atkinson

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“If you want me to do things only for ROI reasons, you should get out of this stock.” — Tim Cook

Source:http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/tim-cook-soundly-r...

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“We’re just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people — as remarkable as the telephone.” — Steve Jobs

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“The most important thing to us is that our customers love our products. Not just buy them, but love them.” — Tim Cook

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“The goal is to do business with people who believe what you believe.” — Simon Sinek

Source:http://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_in...

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“The gift/curse of the visionary is that they can see the future as clearly as they can see the present.” — Scott Dunlap

Source:http://www.quora.com/If-Steve-Jobs-was-such-a-bad-boss-wh...

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“If you told someone you wanted to make a thermostat and they looked at the numbers, no one would do it. No one would have made the iPod…no one would have made the iPhone.” — Tony Fadell

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“The Macintosh may only have 10% of the market, but it is clearly the top 10%.” — Douglas Adams

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“People don't buy what you do, they buy why you do it.” — Simon Sinek

Source:http://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_in...

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“If you hire people just because they can do a job, they’ll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they’ll work for you with blood and sweat and tears.” — Simon Sinek

Source:http://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_in...

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