No one should have a key that turns a billion locks. It shouldn’t exist.
TIM COOKWe are the most focused company that I know of or have read of or have any knowledge of. We say no to good ideas every day.
More Tim Cook Quotes
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A lot of companies have innovation departments, and this is always a sign that something is wrong when you have a VP of innovation or something. You know, put a for-sale sign on the door.
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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.
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Everybody doesn’t want to have to be a computer scientist to protect themselves. Most people have no desire to do that.
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So if hearing that the CEO of Apple is gay can help someone struggling to come to terms with who he or she is, or bring comfort to anyone who feels alone, or inspire people to insist on their equality, then it’s worth the trade-off with my own privacy.
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They’re gobbling up everything they can learn about you and trying to monetize it. We think that’s wrong. And it’s not the kind of company that Apple wants to be.
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Apple Pay is forever changing the way we pay for things.
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We do a lot of things for reasons besides profit motive. We want to leave the world better than we found it.
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A few years ago, users of Internet services began to realize that when an online service is free, you’re not the customer. You’re the product.
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I don’t think Apple has to own a content business.
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I love museums. But I don’t want to live in one.
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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.
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We sold more iPads in the last quarter alone than any PC manufacturer sold in their entire line.
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I believe that if you took privacy and you said, I’m willing to give up all of my privacy to be secure. So you weighted it as a zero.
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Our business is not based on having information about you. You’re not our product. Our product are these, and this watch, and Macs and so forth. And so we run a very different company.
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I personally admire Steve Jobs not most for what he did, or what he said, but for what he stood for.
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