I learned that focus is key. Not just in your running a company, but in your personal life as well.
TIM COOKThere 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.
More Tim Cook Quotes
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We can’t take all of our energy and all of our care and finish the painting, then have someone else put their name on it.
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We make the best phone, we don’t make the most phones.
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From an app point of view, if you looked at innovation on the PC, you’d be hard pressed to find companies innovating. The list is small.
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So 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.
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Somebody gets it home and they feel great when they pay the money, but then they get it home and use it and the joy is gone.
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Our business is not based on having information about you. You’re not our product. Our product are these, and this watch, and Macs and so forth. And so we run a very different company.
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I don’t consider myself an activist, but I realize how much I’ve benefited from the sacrifice of others.
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We wouldn’t be able to buy things online, because your credit cards – they’ve probably been ripped off anyway, but they would be ripped off left and right every day if there wasn’t encryption.
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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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The worst thing in the world that can happen to you if you’re an engineer that has given his life to something is for someone to rip it off and put their name to it.
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I believe that if you took privacy and you said, I’m willing to give up all of my privacy to be secure. So you weighted it as a zero.
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It is possible to be aware of God at all times.
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Right to privacy is really important. You pull that brick out and another and pretty soon the house falls.
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We are the most focused company that I know of or have read of or have any knowledge of. We say no to good ideas every day.
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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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