If you keep your eye on the profit, you’re going to skimp on the product. But if you focus on making really great products, then the profits will follow.
STEVE JOBSFocusing is all about saying no.
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Everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think.
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Focusing is about saying No.
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That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.
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I don’t think of my life as a career. I do stuff. I respond to stuff. That’s not a career – it’s a life!
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The best innovation is sometimes the company, the way you organize the company.
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We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.
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Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask, and that’s what separates the people who do things from the people who just dream about them.
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The mark of an innovative company is not only that it comes up with new ideas first, but also that it knows how to leapfrog when it finds itself behind.
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It’s better to be a pirate than to join the Navy.
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Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what matters to me.
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Management is about persuading people to do things they do not want to do, while leadership is about inspiring people to do things they never thought they could.
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Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions.
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Don’t just live a life; build one.
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Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
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Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.
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