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.
TIM COOKRight to privacy is really important. You pull that brick out and another and pretty soon the house falls.
More Tim Cook Quotes
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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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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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It is possible to be aware of God at all times.
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They’re gobbling up everything they can learn about you and trying to monetize it. We think that’s wrong. And it’s not the kind of company that Apple wants to be.
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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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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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You can’t have a back door that’s only for the good guys.
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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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In the long arc of time, you are only relevant if customers love you.
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Most business models have focused on self interest instead of user experience. Those are the kinds of problems we solve to solve.
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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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You want to be the pebble in the pond that creates the ripples for change.
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Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being.
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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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Apple has a culture of excellence that is, I think, so unique and so special. I’m not going to witness or permit the change of it.
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