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.
TIM COOKExcellence has become a habit.
More Tim Cook Quotes
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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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You can’t have a back door that’s only for the good guys.
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I’m a country boy at the end of the day. I’m going to pick up the phone and tell you I’m going to sue you.
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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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Intuition is critical in virtually everything you do. But, without relentless preparation and execution, it is meaningless.
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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 am who I am, and I’m focused on that, and being a great CEO of Apple.
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A lot of companies have innovation departments, and this is always a sign that something is wrong when you have a VP of innovation or something. You know, put a for-sale sign on the door.
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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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Discrimination, in all its forms, is bad for business.
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What makes Siri cool is she has a personality.
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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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Our whole goal in life is to give you something you didn’t know you wanted and then once you get it, you can’t imagine your life without it… and you can count on apple doing that.
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Creativity is people who care enough to keep thinking about something until they find the simplest way to do it.
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We make the best phone, we don’t make the most phones.
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Our message, to people around the country and around the world, is this: Apple is open.
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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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There 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.
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The government should always be the one defending civil liberties.
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No one should have a key that turns a billion locks. It shouldn’t exist.
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We say no to great ideas in order to keep the amount of things we focus on very small in number so that we can put enormous energy behind the ones we do choose…..It’s not just saying yes to the right products, it’s saying no to many products that are good ideas, but just not nearly as good as the other ones.
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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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Price is rarely the most important thing. A cheap product might sell some units.
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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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And that’s what everyone at Apple is focused on – pushing forward and creating the future.
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We do a lot of things for reasons besides profit motive. We want to leave the world better than we found it.
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