Although Jobs later said that he was not plotting to take over Apple at the time, Ellison thought it was inevitable. ” Anyone who spent more than a half hour with Amelio would realize that...

we were looking for influence and why we have to suffer through ‘Godzilla.’

Jobs had always been an extremely opinionated eater, with a tendency to instantly judge any food as either fantastic or terrible. He could taste two avocados that most mortals would find indistinguishable, and declare that...

Steve’s head dropped and stared at his feet. After a weighty, uncomfortable pause, he issued a challenge that would haunt me for days. ” Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling...

The older I get, the more I see how much motivations matter. The Zune was crappy because the people at Microsoft don’t really love music or art the way we do. We won because we...

Louisiana lost its credibility by asking for everything. Now it is our job to say, we have some reasonable priorities for spending and we are going to be sensible and frugal about it.

One sticking point was that Jobs wanted his payout to be in cash. Amelio insisted that he needed to “have skin in the game” and take the payout in stock that he would agree to...

It’s a valid analysis and Lou’s trusted to give that analysis.

Once a year Jobs took his most valuable employees on a retreat, which he called ” The Top 100.” They were picked based on a simple guideline: the people you would bring if you could...

The thing that struck me was his intensity. Whatever he was interested in he would generally carry to an irrational extreme.” Jobs had honed his trick of using stares and silences to master other people....

Sculley found Jobs as memorable as his machine. ” He seemed more a showman than a businessman. Every move seemed calculated, as if it was rehearsed, to create an occasion of the moment.

Mrs. Graham was an important and remarkable person in our profession and all of us lucky enough to know her are deeply saddened by her untimely death.

Google, you fucking ripped off the iPhone, wholesale ripped us off. Grand theft. I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple’s $40 billion in...

The last two weeks have been more than encouraging. They’ve been awesome. There’s more money, and most importantly, there’s a plan.

In ancient Rome, when a victorious general paraded through the streets, legend has it that he was sometimes trailed by a servant whose job it was to repeat to him, ” Memento Mori”: Remember you...

As Friedland had done and as Jobs would learn to do, he was able to turn charm into a cunning force, to cajole and intimidate and distort reality with the power of his personality

Despite being a denizen of the digital world, or maybe because he knew all too well its isolating potential, Jobs was a strong believer in face to face meetings. ” There’s a temptation in our...

I think this problem could be solved in 20 minutes. It’s low-hanging fruit and not that expensive.

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...

Edwin Land of Polaroid talked about the intersection of the humanities and science. I like that intersection. There’s something magical about that place. There are a lot of people innovating, and that’s not the main...

I’ve heard the rumor on and off for a month or two. Most rumors like this have some basis for truth, but not this one. How about ambassador to Barbados ? you can float my...

Steve’s sales pitch on the NeXT operating system was dazzling,” according to Amelio. ” He praised the virtues and strengths as though he were describing a performance of Oliver as Macbeth.

If you just sit and observe, you will see how restless your mind is. If you try to calm it, it only makes it worse, but over time it does calm, and when it does,...

Spielberg made movies the way they are today. Our list is aimed at naming the people who influenced the way we live today, not the best but the most influential.

That allows him to focus on a few things and say no to many things. Few people are really good at that.

Years later, on a Steve Jobs discussion board on the website Gawker, the following tale appeared from someone who had worked at the Whole Foods store in Palo Alto a few blocks from Jobs’ home:...

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Jobs also used the meetings to enforce focus. At Robert Friedland’s farm, his job had been to prune the apple trees so that they would stay strong, and that became a metaphor for his pruning...

It’s like when FEMA wasn’t really that creative, and the water was rising and people were stranded, … Once again, people are being stranded and businesses are starting to die.

One of Job’s great strengths was knowing how to focus. ” Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do, ” he said. ” That’s true for companies, and it’s true...

Maybe that’s why I never liked to put on-off switches on Apple devices.

La ventaja competitiva de una sociedad no vendrá de lo bien que se enseñe en sus escuelas la multiplicación y las tablas periódicas, sino de lo bien que se sepa estimular la imaginación y la...

Look out your window, and what do you see? Le Corbusier, not Wright.

Hertzfeld recalled that Gates just sat there coolly, looking at Steve in the eye, before hurling back, in his squeaky voice, what became a classic zinger. “Well, Steve, I think there’s more than one way...

He had a learning experience. It’s the most amazing thing for somebody of his stature. It’s because by himself, he walked around. He walked around and talked to people.

Jobs’s intensity was also evident in his ability to focus. He would set priorities, aim his laser attention on them, and filter out distractions. If something engaged him- the user interface for the original Macintosh,...

The unified field theory that ties together Jobs personality and products begins with his most salient trait: his intensity. His silences could be as searing as his rants; he had taught himself to stare without...

Picasso had a saying – ‘good artists copy, great artists steal’ – and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.

I think it’s important for CNN to get out as much as possible from the Washington-New York axis, … This is not some big strategic shift to New York.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

I think the McCain and Lieberman talk about the need for civility in public discourse is right at the core of our mission,

Steve and I spent a lot of time on the packaging,” said Ive. ” I love the process of unpacking something. You design a ritual of unpacking to make the product feel special. Packaging can...

When he was turning thirty, Jobs had used a metaphor about record albums. He was musing about why folks over thirty develop rigid thought patterns and tend to be less innovative. ” People get stuck...

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for Steve, less is always more, simpler is always better. Therefore, if you can build a glass box with fewer elements, it’s better, it’s simpler, and it’s at the forefront of technology. That’s where Steve...

With the participation of a wide range of policymakers — from Margaret Thatcher to Jimmy Carter to Condoleezza Rice — it has helped lay the groundwork for new approaches to national and world issues,

Jobs described Mike Markkula’s maxim that a good company must “impute”- it must convey its values and importance in everything it does, from packaging to marketing. Johnson loved it. It definitely applied to a company’s...

One of Job’s business rules was to never be afraid of cannibalizing yourself. ” If you don’t cannibalize yourself, someone else will,” he said. So even though an Iphone might cannibalize sales of an IPod,...

Simply handing over your iPod to a friend, your blind date, or the total stranger sitting next to you on the plane opens you up like a book.” (Steven Levy)