“Right to privacy is really important. You pull that brick out and another and pretty soon the house falls.”

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.

Engineers, of course, understand the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

Just as under statism one can at least change nationalities but you can’t avoid subjection to one nation-state or another. But freedom means more than the right to change masters.

Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?

It’s one thing to see a vision; it’s another thing to be seized by a vision.

Rockefeller was born to it, and he has made the most of it. But what some critics see as a vast international conspiracy, he considers a circumstance of life and just another day’s work… In the world of David Rockefeller it’s hard to tell where business ends and politics begins

It’s a silly fool who thinks killing an animal with one tool is different than killing him with another.

A truly obedient man does not discriminate between one thing and another, since his only aim is to execute faithfully whatever may be assigned to him.

He who attempts to control another is a governor, an aggressor, an invader; and the nature of such invasion is not changed, whether it is made by one man upon another man,