“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.”

I personally admire Steve Jobs not most for what he did, or what he said, but for what he stood for.

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

You can’t have a back door that’s only for the good guys.

I love museums. But I don’t want to live in one.

For the most important decisions in your life, trust your intuition, and then work with everything you have, to prove it right.

Intuition is critical in virtually everything you do. But, without relentless preparation and execution, it is meaningless.

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.

Most business models have focused on self interest instead of user experience. Those are the kinds of problems we solve to solve.

No matter what you do next, the world needs your energy, your passion, your impatience for progress. Don’t shrink from risk. And tune out those critics and cynics.

Apple Pay is forever changing the way we pay for things.

A wave of legislation, introduced in more than two dozen states, would allow people to discriminate against their neighbors.

Excellence has become a habit.

History rarely yields to one person, but think, and never forget, what happens when it does. That can be you. That should be you. That must be you.

Those who try to achieve success without hard work ultimately deceive themselves-or worse-deceive others.

The sidelines are not where you want to live your life. The world needs you in the arena!

I am who I am, and I’m focused on that, and being a great CEO of Apple.