Steve Jobs Quotes

We're cautious. We'd rather exceed expectations than miss but I think it's going to be a continued difficult economy. Apple is trying a different way to navigate out of this, we're trying to innovate.

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• I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Writing
  • Always
  • Lyrics

• Provision must be made for the extension of speedy and effective assistance when any African State is threatened with military aggression. We cannot rely solely on international morality.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Military
  • Morality
  • African

• The high-grossing films are not all that interesting to me, I have to say. It's not stuff I would want to be in. Yes, you would want the big paycheck, but that's never really been my concern.

  

  Edie Falco
  • High
  • Want
  • Interesting

• When I was a kid, I had an Atari 2600, and I would play Pac Man, Frogger, all that kind of stuff. And I did enjoy going to the arcade.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Man
  • Kind
  • Enjoy

• We begin to change the world when we stimulate long-term prosperity using technology. There is not a problem that's large enough that innovation and entrepreneurship can't solve.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • World
  • Long
  • Change

• A man's primary fantasy is access to a variety of attractive women without the fear of rejection.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Women
  • Man
  • Fear

• I'm a huge gamer. I'm very excited, and the idea of the Rift was as a headset that was designed around the specific uses of VR gaming. But I'm excited about a lot of stuff that's outside of it, because I was a VR enthusiast. I want VR to be the thing that we all live in, that we all use for everything, not just games.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Live
  • Want
  • Everything

• Fashion's important to me, but beauty fades. All that stuff is fun while it lasts, but anything can happen tomorrow. You've got to have so much more about you than the way you look or your clothes.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Important
  • Fun
  • Fashion

• I'm just disillusioned with the hip-hop sound right now. It's too materialistic. You know, I'm the kind of guy ... I can't do that. If you track my movement, you'll never see a picture of me with any girl that wasn't mine, or my own car. My jewelry, my clothes. What kind of gangsta rapper has a stylist? A stylist?!

  

  Ice T
  • Guy
  • Girl
  • Car

• The story of technology seems to go up and then retract into simplicity again.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Up
  • Technology
  • Simplicity

• I was the first businessman to say, 'You should give tax benefit to only small companies. You should say your profits are exempt to a limit of Rs. 50 crore or so, but beyond that, you should pay taxes.' I have been arguing with successive finance ministers on this.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Small
  • Taxes
  • Finance

• People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • People
  • Chance
  • Lucky

• My favorite subject was either English or History. I had a really awesome high school education.

  

  Ian Harding
  • School
  • History
  • High

• I think it's always interesting to make sensational stories where, if these people don't make the right choice, it actually puts marks not just on their souls but also their bodies. That means that you can visualize existential questions.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Choice

• In India, kids need someone to look up to. They've got it in cricket: they have Tendulkar and others.

  

  Ian Rush
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Look

• After '45, Ben Gurion started to organize the Zionist movement and the conference in Baltimore. At this convention, they decided that the helm of the Zionist movement has to be a Jewish commonwealth... a Jewish commonwealth!

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Movement
  • Baltimore

• But I'm after medals more than anything. Championships don't get taken away from you but records do, so I think I'd rather have medals at every championships rather than times. A world record would be a bonus, but I'm still only 25 in 17 days.

  

  Sally Pearson
  • World
  • Think
  • Taken

• For me, the labor movement and public education are linked as the essential building blocks to a strong middle class and a path to the American dream. It's why I went to Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations as an undergrad and then to law school.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • School
  • Why
  • American

• I suspect the soviets never did want to use those bombs. The most Stalinist of Soviet hard-liners - Stalin, for example - must have realized a nuclear war would be a hard thing to clean up after.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • War

• Hope, for the Christian, is not wishful thinking or mere blind optimism. It is a mode of knowing, a mode within which new things are possible, options are not shut down, new creation can happen.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Thinking
  • Hope
  • Christian

• When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Time
  • Distance
  • Run

• Everyone endeavors as much as possible to make others love what he loves, and to hate what he hates... This effort to make everyone approve what we love or hate is in truth ambition, and so we see that each person by nature desires that other persons should live according to his way of thinking.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Love
  • Make
  • Possible

• We're cautious. We'd rather exceed expectations than miss but I think it's going to be a continued difficult economy. Apple is trying a different way to navigate out of this, we're trying to innovate.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Economy
  • Expectations
  • Apple