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.
TIM COOKWe 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.
More Tim Cook Quotes
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Today, we are pleased to announce the biggest advancement in iPhone.
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Apple Watch is the most personal device we’ve ever created.
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So I had to figure out for myself what was right and true. It was a search. It was a process. It drew on the moral sense that I’d learned from my parents, and in church, and in my own heart, and led me on my own journey of discovery.
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I just want to build great products.
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We sold more iPads in the last quarter alone than any PC manufacturer sold in their entire line.
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Open to everyone, regardless of where they come from, what they look like, how they worship or who they love.
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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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I despise politics. There is no room for it in a company. My life is going to be way too short to deal with that.
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America is always stronger when we do things together.
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There’s a mountain of information about us. I mean there’s so much. Anyway, I’m not an intelligence person. But I just look at it and it’s a mountain of data.
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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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Since these early days, I have seen and have experienced many types of discrimination and all of them were rooted in the fear of people that were different than the majority.
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And that’s what everyone at Apple is focused on – pushing forward and creating the future.
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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.
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An acorn would never brag about giving shade.
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