“I despise politics. There is no room for it in a company. My life is going to be way too short to deal with that.”

You can only do so many things great, and you should cast aside everything else.

In the long arc of time, you are only relevant if customers love you.

We make the best phone, we don’t make the most phones.

People are running huge enterprises off of hacking and stealing data.

We’re very simple people at Apple. We focus on making the world’s best products and enriching people’s lives.

Companies that get confused, that think their goal is revenue or stock price or something. You have to focus on the things that lead to those.

No one should have a key that turns a billion locks. It shouldn’t exist.

Life is fragile. We’re not guaranteed a tomorrow so give it everything you’ve got.

Our new watches are made entirely of double super gold. They are just a piece of gold that you can wear to the left, right, or directly on top of the other gold you own.

Price is rarely the most important thing. A cheap product might sell some units.

Creativity and innovation are something you can’t flowchart out. Some things you can, and we do, and we’re very disciplined in those areas. But creativity isn’t one of those.

I learned that focus is key. Not just in your running a company, but in your personal life as well.

What makes Siri cool is she has a personality.

And that’s what everyone at Apple is focused on – pushing forward and creating the future.

The longer the meeting, the less is accomplished.

We say no to great ideas in order to keep the amount of things we focus on very small in number so that we can put enormous energy behind the ones we do choose…..It’s not just saying yes to the right products, it’s saying no to many products that are good ideas, but just not nearly as good as the other ones.

Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.

There is a story of an Oxford student who once remarked, “I despise all Americans, but have never met one I didn’t like.”

To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.

Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.

If you value a man’s regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper – and despise it.

We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.

First of all, Mets fans despise me.