Steve Jobs Quotes

When I hire somebody really senior, competence is the ante. They have to be really smart. But the real issue for me is, Are they going to fall in love with Apple? Because if they fall in love with Apple, everything else will take care of itself. They'll want to do what's best for Apple, not what's best for them, what's best for Steve, or anybody else.

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• It's inspiring for me to know that you've got to step up your game.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Up
  • Game
  • Me

• I've never had a stylist, and I've always chosen my own clothes.

  

  Bonnie Wright

• Music became my refuge and then my salvation.

  

  Lena Horne
  • Music
  • Salvation
  • Refuge

• I prefer to have some beliefs that don't make logical sense.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • Sense
  • Beliefs

• She was stronger alone; and her own good sense so well supported her, that her firmness was as unshaken, her appearance of cheerfulness as invariable, as, with regrets so poignant and so fresh, it was possible for them to be.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Regrets
  • Fresh
  • Poignant

• Let us not forget that the reasons for human actions are usually incalculably more complex and diverse than we tend to explain them later, and are seldom clearly manifest.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Diverse
  • Manifest
  • Human Actions

• Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Words
  • Sex
  • Disfranchisement

• I am here to play women's tennis. I'm a lady. Predominantly, most of the time I always like to play ladies.

  

  Serena Williams
  • Women
  • Play
  • Tennis

• Organizations grow when they persuade a tiny cadre to be passionate, not when they touch millions with a mediocre message

  

  Seth Godin
  • Organization
  • Passionate
  • Grows

• Geniuses are always marginalized to one degree or another. Someone wholly invested in the status quo is unlikely to disrupt it. Did you get to where you are by accepting the status quo? I didn’t.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Geniuses
  • Status Quo
  • Disrupt

• I feel like fashion is becoming more inclusive, partly because the industry is finally getting that beauty exists in so many ways, and partly because thanks to Instagram, girls can create their own images, or remix images they're seeing in magazines and fashion shows, in ways that weren't possible before.

  

  Petra Collins
  • Girl
  • Fashion
  • Feels

• The downside of being a dean is that I'd rather drop off my son at (Michael Jackson's) Neverland Ranch than go to all those meetings.

  

  Ergun Caner
  • Meetings
  • My Son

• To get at the meaning of a statement the logical positivist asks, "What would the world be like if it were true?" The operationist asks, "What would we have to do to come to believe it?" For the pragmatist the question is, "What would we do if did believe it?"

  

  Abraham Kaplan
  • Believe
  • Question
  • Meaning

• It was just really, really tough getting anything when you were a female. Basically, I just took advantage of everything I could. But when people are going to flat out tell you they're not going to hire anyone that's female, there's not much you can do about it.

  

  Shannon Lucid
  • Female
  • Can Do
  • Hire

• Trust has two dimensions: competence and integrity. We will forgive mistakes of competence. Mistakes of integrity are harder to overcome.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Mistake
  • Integrity
  • Overcoming

• There are people who literally cannot start a project until the deadline is four hours away, even if it's a big one. And those people have a serious problem. My recommendation is set up mini-deadlines. You might say, 'Okay, here's my deadline after three days for this and there's another deadline for that and then a third deadline.'

  

  Robert Pozen
  • People
  • Up
  • Serious

• I started out very quiet and I beat Mr. Turgenev. Then I trained hard and I beat Mr. de Maupassant. I've fought two draws with Mr. Stendhal, and I think I had an edge in the last one. But nobody's going to get me in any ring with Mr. Tolstoy unless I'm crazy or I keep getting better.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Thinking
  • Crazy
  • Quiet

• When I hire somebody really senior, competence is the ante. They have to be really smart. But the real issue for me is, Are they going to fall in love with Apple? Because if they fall in love with Apple, everything else will take care of itself. They'll want to do what's best for Apple, not what's best for them, what's best for Steve, or anybody else.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Competence
  • Hire
  • Ante