“Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being.”

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.

Without encryption, you and I wouldn’t be able to do our banking online.

We’re talking about a world where the PC is no longer the center, but just a devicewhere your new devices need to be more portable, more personal.

We do a lot of things for reasons besides profit motive. We want to leave the world better than we found it.

The largest lesson I learned from Steve was that the joy in life is in the journey, and I saw him live this every day.

Our whole goal in life is to give you something you didn’t know you wanted and then once you get it, you can’t imagine your life without it… and you can count on apple doing that.

You want to be the pebble in the pond that creates the ripples for change.

If I’m working with you for several months on things, if I have a relationship with you, and I decide one day I’m going to sue you,

Apple is this great American company that could have only happened here.

Security isn’t just a feature, it’s a base, it’s a fundamental, right.

Never try to fix other people. God does not need to do a bank shot off your lips.

Discrimination, in all its forms, is bad for business.

It is so inspiring when you come across a woman who is very strong and dedicated and is amazing at what they do. That’s how I feel about Meryl Streep.

That window, which has stayed open for nearly five years, with amazing good will from the Afghans, is threatening to close unless the world wakes up and deals with the crisis.

That is something unique to Canada. It is an amazing global human asset.

Because of social media, we have access to amazing spiritual teachers.

Painting is similar to music. You get a couple or words or notes or chords that excite you, and you just follow them and add a bit more and see where it takes you. That’s the thrill for me. It still is a thrill, which is amazing after all this time.

The amazing thing is that I found something so early that I can support myself doing.

And now people even of our parents’ generation are familiar with the term “graphic novel,” which is kind of amazing.

My favorite designer is Christian Lacroix, not just because his clothes are amazing and I love them, but because he’s so nice.