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 COOKI don’t think Apple has to own a content business.
More Tim Cook Quotes
-
-
I love museums. But I don’t want to live in one.
TIM COOK -
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.
TIM COOK -
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.
TIM COOK -
The government should always be the one defending civil liberties.
TIM COOK -
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.
TIM COOK -
I learned that focus is key. Not just in your running a company, but in your personal life as well.
TIM COOK -
I remember what it was like to grow up in the South in the 1960s and 1970s.
TIM COOK -
Discrimination isn’t something that’s easy to oppose. It doesn’t always stare you in the face. It moves in the shadows. And sometimes it shrouds itself within the very laws meant to protect us.
TIM COOK -
I personally admire Steve Jobs not most for what he did, or what he said, but for what he stood for.
TIM COOK -
History rarely yields to one person, but think, and never forget, what happens when it does. That can be you. That should be you. That must be you.
TIM COOK -
Creativity and innovation are something you can’t flowchart out. Some things you can, and we do, and we’re very disciplined in those areas. But creativity isn’t one of those.
TIM COOK -
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.
TIM COOK -
Apple Stores Offer the Best Buying Experience and Customer Service On The Planet
TIM COOK -
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.
TIM COOK -
Today, we are pleased to announce the biggest advancement in iPhone.
TIM COOK -
An acorn would never brag about giving shade.
TIM COOK -
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.
TIM COOK -
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.
TIM COOK -
For the most important decisions in your life, trust your intuition, and then work with everything you have, to prove it right.
TIM COOK -
Price is rarely the most important thing. A cheap product might sell some units.
TIM COOK -
A great product isn’t just a collection of features. It’s how it all works together.
TIM COOK -
Our competition is different. They’re confused. They chased after netbooks. Now they’re trying to make PCs into tablets and tablets into PCs. Who knows what they’ll do next?
TIM COOK -
Companies that get confused, that think their goal is revenue or stock price or something. You have to focus on the things that lead to those.
TIM COOK -
In the long arc of time, you are only relevant if customers love you.
TIM COOK -
If I’m working with you for several months on things, if I have a relationship with you, and I decide one day I’m going to sue you,
TIM COOK -
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.
TIM COOK