Steve Jobs Quotes

That's what Walt Disney did, and Hewlett and Packard, and the people who built Intel. They created a company to last, not just to make money. That's what I want Apple to be.

Steve Jobs

• Apple
• Intel
• Walt Disney
• Hewlett-Packard

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• Jeff Williams, Apple's senior vice president of operations, has been called 'Tim Cook's Tim Cook' by some.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Senior
  • Apple
  • Operations

• Microsoft's Windows 3.1, released in 1992, was the first truly successful edition of Windows and juiced the Redmond juggernaut. Apple's Macintosh System 7.5, released in 1994, was another in a string of versions that lacked key architectural features that the Mac didn't have until Steve Jobs returned and brought with him the code that became OS X.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Successful
  • Key
  • Apple

• You know, I lose patience really easily; I'd rather shop in the grocery store than in the department store. I can pick an apple like nobody's business.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Business
  • Patience
  • Apple

• You buy a new iPhone, a few months later, another new iPhone comes out, and you get online to buy another one. You can't get enough. You are addicted to Apple.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Enough
  • Apple
  • iPhone

• Galleries are easier to steal from than the Apple Store, maybe.

  

  Barry McGee
  • Apple
  • Maybe
  • Store

• When I talk about that Apple ecosystem, the ability to get one application to run across those five platforms is very difficult. In the future of Microsoft, using HTML5, IE9 and 10, the scalable OS, the ability to do that gets much, much easier.

  

  B. Kevin Turner
  • Future
  • Difficult
  • Apple

• I actually looked at an Apple ad from 1978. It was a print ad. That shows you how ancient it was. And it said, 'Thousands of people have discovered the Apple computer.' Thousands of people.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • People
  • Said
  • Apple

• My Safari bookmarks only sync intermittently across my Apple devices. Unlike Amazon's Kindle app for Apple products, the company's iBooks doesn't remember where I left off unless I set a bookmark.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Remember
  • Company
  • Apple

• I have no direct knowledge of this, but I suspect that Apple will launch a living room product that redefines people's expectations really strongly, and the notion of a separate console platform will disappear concurrent with Apple's announcement.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Apple

• I am vegetarian. I have a sweet tooth, so I try and avoid desserts. I binge maybe once a month. I eat every two hours, whether it is a Marie biscuit or just a slice of apple. As a result, my metabolism has improved, and this is a huge contributor to weight loss.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Weight
  • Apple
  • Vegetarian

• I have an Apple computer, which I use to play Spider Solitaire and do research on the Internet.

  

  Alex Trebek
  • Internet
  • Computer
  • Apple

• When you think about an apple, you also think about the opposite of an apple.

  

  Jaden Smith
  • Think
  • Apple
  • Opposite

• Newton did not know what happened to the apple, and I can prove this when the next eclipse comes.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Happened
  • Apple
  • Newton

• Let me think... I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Apple
  • Drop
  • Anvil

• You know, I've got a plan that could rescue Apple. I can't say any more than that it's the perfect product and the perfect strategy for Apple. But nobody there will listen to me.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Plan
  • Strategy
  • Product

• We're not a media company. We don't own media. We don't own music. We don't own films or television. We're not a media company. We're just Apple.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Television
  • Films
  • Apple

• But Apple really beats to a different drummer. I used to say that Apple should be the Sony of this business, but in reality, I think Apple should be the Apple of this business.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Business
  • Apple
  • Drummer

• John Sculley ruined Apple and he ruined it by bringing a set of values to the top of Apple which were corrupt and corrupted some of the top people who were there, drove out some of the ones who were not corruptible, and brought in more corrupt ones and paid themselves collectively tens of millions of dollars and cared more about their own glory and wealth than they did about what built Apple in the first place which was making great computers for people to use.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Apple
  • John Sculley
  • Corruptible

• I respect all women who came before me to blaze trails into the workplace for us.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Women
  • Me
  • Respect

• A man told me that for a woman, I was very opinionated. I said, 'for a man you're kind of ignorant'.

  

  Anne Hathaway
  • Man
  • Ignorant
  • Opinionated

• Silence is my dignity.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Silence
  • Dignity

• Las Vegas has the type of audience - and they haven't changed since my father's days - they're still boring and bored. And there's only that handful of artists that they really enjoy and know how to respond to.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Father
  • Know
  • Enjoy

• That's what Walt Disney did, and Hewlett and Packard, and the people who built Intel. They created a company to last, not just to make money. That's what I want Apple to be.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Apple
  • Intel
  • Walt Disney