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• These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I'm not downplaying that.

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  Children, Technology, Birth Defects

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• You need to have a collaborative hiring process.

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  Insightful, Needs, Process

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• I buy everything from CostCo. It's great; they've got everything I need.

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  Needs, Costco

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• I don't want to fail, of course. But even though I didn't know how bad things really were, I still had a lot to think about before I said yes. I had to consider the implications for Pixar, for my family, for my reputation. I decided that I didn't really care, because this is what I want to do. If I try my best and fail, well, I've tried my best.

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  Thinking, Trying, Care

  "The Biggest Secret to Life (and Work)" by Ayelet Baron, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 20, 2017.

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• I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.

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  Smart, Believe, Optimistic

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.46, Prabhat Prakashan

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• And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We're always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it's only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.

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  Inspirational, Thinking, Best Job

  "The Seed of Apple's Innovation". Bloomberg interview, www.bloomberg.com. October 12, 2004.

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• The cure for Apple is not cost-cutting. The cure for Apple is to innovate its way out of its current predicament.

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  Business, Cutting, Best Job

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.23, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Unless you've a lot of passion about this, you're not gonna survive. You're gonna give it up. So you've got to have an idea or a wrong that you want to right that you're passionate about, otherwise you're not gonna have the perseverance to stick it through. I think it's half the battle right there.

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  Perseverance, Passion, Thinking

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• Never settle for average.

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  Motivational, Average, Never Settle

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Somewhere between the janitor and the CEO, reasons stop mattering.

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  Reason, Ceo, Janitor

  "Apple Employees Tell the Secrets Behind Steve Jobs' 'Magic'" by Brian X. Chen, www.wired.com. May 9, 2011.

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• I used to sleep on the floor in friends' rooms, returning Coke
  bottles for food, money, and getting weekly free meals at a local temple

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  Sleep, Meals, Bottles

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• My philosophy is that everything starts with a great product.

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  Philosophy, Products

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• I think this is the start of something really big. Sometimes that first step is the hardest one, and we've just taken it.

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  Taken, Thinking, Firsts

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• In your life you only get to do so many things and right now we've chosen to do this, so let's make it great.

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  Inspirational, Leadership, Chosen

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• Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards 10 years later.

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  College, Years, Calligraphy

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• The mark of an innovative company is not only that it comes up with new ideas first, but also that it knows how to leapfrog when it finds itself behind.

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  Ideas, Firsts, Come Up

  "Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography". Book by Walter Isaacson, 2011.

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• If it could save a person's life, could you find a way to save ten seconds off the boot time? If there were five million people using the Mac, and it took ten seconds extra to turn it on every day, that added up to three hundred million or so hours per year people would save, which was the equivalent of at least one hundred lifetimes saved per year.

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  Years, People, Three

  "Steve Jobs". Book by Walter Isaacson, p. 123, 2011.

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• Breakthrough is how to distinguish a leader and who followed

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  Leader, Breakthrough

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• When we hire someone, even if they are going to be in marketing, I will have them talk to the design folks and the engineers.

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  Design, Marketing, Folks

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• We had nothing to lose and everything to gain.

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  Gains, Nothing To Lose, Colonization

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• It's not about pop culture, and it's not about fooling people, and it's not about convincing people that they want something they don't. We figure out what we want. And I think we're pretty good at having the right discipline to think through whether a lot of other people are going to want it, too. That's what we get paid to do.

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  Life, Thinking, Want Something

  "Steve Jobs: The Apple Co-Founder's Most Memorable Quotes", www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 6, 2011.

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• It's hard to tell with these Internet startups if they're really interested in building companies or if they're just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don't really want to build a company, they won't luck into it. That's because it's so hard that if you don't have a passion, you'll give up.

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  Inspirational, Money, Giving Up

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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.

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  Jobs, Simplicity, Campaigns

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• For most of my life, I’ve felt that there must be more to our existence than meets the eye. This is who I am, and you can’t expect me to be someone I’m not.

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  Eye, Who I Am, Existence

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• You know, Dr. Edwin Land was a troublemaker. He dropped out of Harvard and founded Polaroid. Not only was he one of the great inventors of our time but, more important, he saw the intersection of art and science and business and built an organization to reflect that. Polaroid did that for some years, but eventually Dr. Land, one of those brilliant troublemakers, was asked to leave his own company - which is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard of.

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  Art, Years, Land

  "Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs". Interview With David Sheff, reprints.longform.org. February 1985.

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