Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different
Karen Blumenthal
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”
“Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become”
“would announce that NeXT was bringing the world a breakthrough. But the customers didn’t follow and NeXT wasn’t close to making a profit, which companies must do to thrive and grow. At a board meeting in spring 1991, company officials delivered more bad news about poor results. Investor Ross Perot interrupted the presentation with a blunt assessment: “So what you’re telling me is the cockpit’s on fire and the plane’s in a tailspin.”
“was one of those sort of apocalyptic moments,” he said later. After seeing what Xerox called a graphical user interface (sometimes pronounced”
“seeing a rough version of the movie in late November 1993, the president of”
“chant: “We need a _____ floppy; We need a _____ floppy!” Jobs agreed only to include a floppy drive on a later model. Still, the Japanese company Canon was impressed enough to invest $100 million in 1989 for a 16.7 percent piece of the company, giving NeXT important cash while it tried to roll out its computers. By then, however, much had changed in the”
“businessman. Though only fifty years old, the college dropout was a technology rock star, a living legend to millions of people around the world. In his early twenties, Jobs almost single-handedly introduced the world”
“at Apple for being too disruptive and difficult. He set out to build another computer company and missed the mark, blowing through millions of dollars of investors’ money. He could”
“and stunningly mean-spirited. Some parts of his life sounded like a fairy tale right out of the movies: There was a promise made when he was a baby, romances, remarkable rebounds, and riches almost too big to be believed. Other parts were so messy and ugly, so very human, that they would never be considered family entertainment.”
“Wozniak had a breakthrough: He had pulled together chips, a power supply, a monitor, and a keyboard.”
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