Tim Cook Quotes

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• Let your joy be in your journey, not in some distant goal.

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  Journey, Goal, Joy

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• Creativity is people who care enough to keep thinking about something until they find the simplest way to do it.

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  Creativity, Thinking, People

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• For the most important decisions in your life, trust your intuition, and then work with everything you have, to prove it right.

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  Graduation, Passion, Decision

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• You can focus on things that are barriers or you can focus on scaling the wall or redefining the problem.

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  Wall, Focus, Problem

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• The longer the meeting, the less is accomplished.

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  Accomplished, Meetings

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• You are more powerful than you think.

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  Uplifting, Strong Women, Powerful

  Twitter post from Apr 23, 2014

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• Life is fragile. We're not guaranteed a tomorrow so give it everything you've got.

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  Inspirational, Giving, Tomorrow

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• You want to be the pebble in the pond that creates the ripples for change.

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  Ponds, Want, Pebbles

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• A great product isn't just a collection of features. It's how it all works together.

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  Design, Working Together, Collections

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• No matter what you do next, the world needs your energy, your passion, your impatience for progress. Don't shrink from risk. And tune out those critics and cynics. History rarely yields to one person, but think, and never forget, what happens when it does. That can be you. That should be you. That must be you.

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  Passion, Thinking, Yield

  "Tim Cook channels Martin Luther King Jr. in speech to George Washington University graduates". www.businessinsider.com. May 17, 2015.

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• Those who try to achieve success without hard work ultimately deceive themselves-or worse-deceive others.

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  Hard Work, Trying, Deceiving

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• We are the most focused company that I know of or have read of or have any knowledge of. We say no to good ideas every day. We say no to great ideas in order to keep the amount of things we focus on very small in number so that we can put enormous energy behind the ones we do choose.....It's not just saying yes to the right products, it's saying no to many products that are good ideas, but just not nearly as good as the other ones.

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  Order, Ideas, Numbers

  "Apple COO Tim Cook: 'We Have No Interest In Being In The TV Market'" by Dan Frommer, www.businessinsider.com. February 23, 2010.

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• So let me be clear: I'm proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me.

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  Pride, Gay, Proud

  "Tim Cook Speaks Up". www.bloomberg.com. October 30, 2014.

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• I personally admire Steve Jobs not most for what he did, or what he said, but for what he stood for. The largest lesson I learned from Steve was that the joy in life is in the journey, and I saw him live this every day.

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  Jobs, Journey, Joy

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• I learned that focus is key. Not just in your running a company, but in your personal life as well.

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  Running, Keys, Focus

  "Tim Cook On Facebook, The iPad, And Just About Everything Else". www.businessinsider.com. May 29, 2012.

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• We do a lot of things for reasons besides profit motive. We want to leave the world better than we found it.

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  World, Want, Reason

  "Why Tim Cook Doesn't Care About 'The Bloody ROI'" by Steve Denning, www.forbes.com. March 7, 2014.

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• We believe in saying no to thousands of projects so that we can really focus on the few that are truly important and meaningful to us.

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  Meaningful, Believe, Discipline

  "Apple's Tim Cook: We're Fine Without Steve Jobs (AAPL)" by Dan Frommer, www.businessinsider.com. January 21, 2009.

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• A few years ago, users of Internet services began to realize that when an online service is free, you're not the customer. You're the product.

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  Years, Entrepreneur, Realizing

  "Apple's encryption battle with the FBI has implications well past the iPhone" by Sam Thielman, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2016.

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• There are times in all of our lives when a reliance on gut or intuition just seems more appropriate - when a particular course of action just feels right.

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  Intuition, Action, Guts

  "Tim Cook, Apple CEO, Auburn University Commencement Speech 2010" by Kit Eaton, www.fastcompany.com. August 26, 2011.

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• The sidelines are not where you want to live your life. The world needs you in the arena!

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  Live Your Life, Needs, World

  "Tim Cook channels Martin Luther King Jr. in speech to George Washington University graduates". www.businessinsider.com. May 17, 2015.

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• We're very simple people at Apple. We focus on making the world's best products and enriching people's lives.

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  Simple, Apples, People

  "Transcript: Apple CEO Tim Cook interviewed by NBC's Brian Williams". articles.latimes.com. December 06, 2012.

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• Most business models have focused on self interest instead of user experience. Those are the kinds of problems we solve to solve.

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  Self, Design, Kind

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• Intuition is critical in virtually everything you do. But, without relentless preparation and execution, it is meaningless.

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  Preparation, Intuition, Execution

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• I am driven by great work and seeing people do incredible things and having a part in that.

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  People, Incredibles, Driven

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• Companies that get confused, that think their goal is revenue or stock price or something. You have to focus on the things that lead to those.

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  Confused, Thinking, Goal

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