Graduates, your values matter. They are your north star. And work takes on new meaning when you feel you’re pointed in the right direction. Otherwise, it’s just a job. And life is too short for that.
TIM COOKI am confident our best years lie ahead of us and that together we will continue to make Apple the magical place that it is.
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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.
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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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I don’t think Apple has to own a content business.
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I am confident our best years lie ahead of us and that together we will continue to make Apple the magical place that it is.
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It’s the privilege of a lifetime for me to work with the most innovative people on Earth.
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And that’s what everyone at Apple is focused on – pushing forward and creating the future.
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Where we might go in the future, we’ll see. Customers love games. I’m not interested in being in the console business in what is thought of as traditional gaming. But Apple is a big player today and things in the future will only make that bigger.
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We’re very simple people at Apple. We focus on making the world’s best products and enriching people’s lives.
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Everybody doesn’t want to have to be a computer scientist to protect themselves. Most people have no desire to do that.
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Anything can change, because the smartphone revolution is still in the early stages.
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The largest lesson I learned from Steve was that the joy in life is in the journey, and I saw him live this every day.
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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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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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What makes Siri cool is she has a personality.
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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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I think everyone has to ask, how do companies make their money? Follow the money. And if they’re making money mainly by collecting gobs of personal data, I think you have a right to be worried.
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Honestly, we’ll compete with everybody. I love competition. As long as people invent their own stuff, I love competition.
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You can focus on things that are barriers or you can focus on scaling the wall or redefining the problem.
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We’re talking about a world where the PC is no longer the center, but just a devicewhere your new devices need to be more portable, more personal.
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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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You want to be the pebble in the pond that creates the ripples for change.
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The government should always be the one defending civil liberties.
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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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When I think of civil liberties I think of the founding principles of the country. The freedoms that are in the First Amendment. But also the fundamental right to privacy.
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To whom much is given, much is expected. I do believe this. It’s embedded in me.
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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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