If I’m expected to keep your messages, and everybody else’s, then there should be a law that says, you need to keep all of these.
TIM COOKSo 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.
More Tim Cook Quotes
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There are times in all of our lives when a reliance on gut or intuition just seems more appropriate – when a particular course of action just feels right.
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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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A wave of legislation, introduced in more than two dozen states, would allow people to discriminate against their neighbors.
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I learned that focus is key. Not just in your running a company, but in your personal life as well.
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Apple is this great American company that could have only happened here.
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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.
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In my view the tablet and the PC are different. You can do things with the tablet if you are not encumbered by the legacy of the PC.
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Discrimination, in all its forms, is bad for business.
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If you want me to do things only for ROI reasons, you should get out of this stock.
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If those of us in positions of responsibility fail to do everything in our power to protect the right of privacy, we risk something far more valuable than money. We risk our way of life.
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In the long arc of time, you are only relevant if customers love you.
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Those who try to achieve success without hard work ultimately deceive themselves-or worse-deceive others.
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Let your joy be in your journey, not in some distant goal.
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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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From our point of view it’s important that Apple not be the developer for the world.
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