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576 Business magnate Quotes

We’re not going to be the first to this party, but we’re going to be the best.

Party Best First Fun
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Your customers dream of a happier and better life. Don’t move products. Instead, enrich lives.
Customer Happy Product Enrich
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Manage the top line: your strategy, your people, and your products, and the bottom line will follow.

Strategy Product Follow People
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I hate it when people call themselves ‘entrepreneurs’ when what they’re really trying to do is launch a startup and then sell of go public, so they can cash in and move on. They’re unwilling to do the work it takes to build a real company, which is the hardest work in business.

Entrepreneur Launch Cash Business
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You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.

Customer Ask Want Time
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And we’ve all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it.

Choose Life Worth Better
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We’re here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise, why even be here? We’re creating a completely new consciousness, like an artist or a poet. That’s how you have to think of this. We’re rewriting the history of human thought with what we’re doing.

Universe Create Artist Poet
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I would rather gamble on our vision than make a ‘me, too’ product.

Gamble Vision Product Make
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In most cases, strengths and weaknesses are two sides of the same coin. A strength in one situation is a weakness in another, yet often the person can’t switch gears. It’s a very subtle thing to talk about strengths and weaknesses because almost always they’re the same thing.

Weakness Strength Subtle Situation
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The most important thing is a person. A person who incites your curiosity and feeds your curiosity; and machines cannot do that in the same way that people can.

Curiosity Important Feed Incite
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I end up not buying a lot of things, because I find them ridiculous.
Buy Things End Ridiculous
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I’m not dismissing the value of higher education; I’m simply saying it comes at the expense of experience.

Dismiss Education Higher Expense
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I think the biggest innovations of the 21st century will be at the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is beginning.

Innovation Technology Century Era
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Many companies forget what it means to make great products. After initial success, sales and marketing people take over and the product people eventually make their way out.

Company Product Great Success
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One way to drive fear out of a relationship is to realize that your partner’s values are the same as yours, that what you care about is exactly what they care about. In my opinion, that drives fear out and makes for a great partnership, whether it’s a corporate partnership or a marriage.

Drive Relationship Vlaues Care
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I know that living with me was not a bowl of cherries.

Know Live Bowl Cherries
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Some people can do one thing magnificently, like Michelangelo, and others make things like semiconductors or build 747 airplanes – that type of work requires legions of people. In order to do things well, that can’t be done by one person, you must find extraordinary people.

Magnificent Legions Order Extraordinary
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Companies must have a noble cause, and it’s the leaders job to transform that noble cause into such an inspiring vision, that it will attract the most talented people in the world to want to join it.

Company Noble Cause Leader
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Every once in a while, a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything.

Product Change Once Revolution
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People need to have the incentive that if they invest and succeed, they can make a fair profit. Otherwise they’ll stop investing.
People Incentive Invest Succeed
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The system is that there is no system. That doesn’t mean we don’t have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that’s not what it’s about. Process makes you more efficient.

System Process Discipline Company
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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication – Steve Jobs turned this into the slogan behind an early Mac advertising campaign. Which doesn’t make it less true.

Simplicity Ultimate Slogan True
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A lot of people think big business in America is a bad thing. I think it’s a really good thing. Most people in business are ethical, hard-working, good people. And it’s a meritocracy.

People Think Business America
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Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet they know how to drive a car. You don’t have to study physics to understand the laws of motion to drive a car. You don’t have to understand any of this stuff to use Macintosh.

Concept Transmission Automatic Drive
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My job is to make the whole executive team good enough to be successors, so that’s what I try to do.
Job Executive Team Successor
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When you have feelings like sadness or anger about your cancer or your plight, to mask them is to lead an artificial life.

Feel Sad Anger Plight
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The iPod is not a new category. Music is not new. It’s not a speculative market. It’s a very, very large market. It’s been around for thousands of years and will be around as long as humans exist.

Category Music Speculate Market
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We’ve gone through the operating system and looked at everything and asked how can we simplify this and make it more powerful at the same time.

Operate System Everything Simplify
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Every once in a while a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything. It’s very fortunate if you can work on just one of these in your career. Apple’s been very fortunate in that it’s introduced a few of these.

Revolution Product Change Fortunate
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Great things in business are never done by one person, they’re done by a team of people.

Great Business Never Team
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If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.
Work Something Care Push
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Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help make the big choices in life. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

Remember Important Encounter Choice
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Focus does not mean saying yes, it means saying no.

Focus Say Yes No
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If you define the problem correctly, you almost have the solution.

Define Problem Solution Correct
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Do not try to do everything. Do one thing well.

Everything Well Thing Do
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Customers don’t measure you on how hard you tried, they measure you on what you deliver.

Customer Measure Try Deliver
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Packaging can be theater, it can create a story.

Package Theater Create Story
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Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Innovation Leader Follower Distinguish
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You’re already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

Naked Already Follow Heart
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The best way to create value in the 21st century is to connect Creativity with Technology.

Technology Create Value Century
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Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect.
Intuition Powerful Intellect Thing
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The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work.

Truly Believe Work Great
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Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.

Trap Dogmatic Result Thinking
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If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking.

Find Keep Look Yet
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The most precious resource we have is time.
Precious Resource Time Have
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Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.

Quality Important Quantity Home
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Everything is important- that success is in the details.

Everything Important Success Details
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The most important decisions you make are not the things you do, but the things you decide not to do.

Important Decision Things Make
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You can’t look at the competition and say you’re going to do it better. You have to look at the competition and say you’re going to do it differently.

Competition Better Different Look
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We believe people with passion can change the world for the better. That’s what we believe. And we believe that those people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones that actually do.

Believe Passion World Better
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