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.
TIM COOKOur 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.
More Tim Cook Quotes
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I’m speaking to you from Silicon Valley, where some of the most prominent and successful companies have built their businesses by lulling their customers into complacency about their personal information.
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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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I love museums. But I don’t want to live in one.
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I don’t own encryption, Apple doesn’t own encryption. Encryption, as you know, is everywhere. In fact some of encryption is funded by our government.
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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.
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It is possible to be aware of God at all times.
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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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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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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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America is always stronger when we do things together.
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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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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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Apple is this great American company that could have only happened here.
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Those who try to achieve success without hard work ultimately deceive themselves-or worse-deceive others.
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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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