You want to be the pebble in the pond that creates the ripples for change.
TIM COOKWe 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.
More Tim Cook Quotes
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For the most important decisions in your life, trust your intuition, and then work with everything you have, to prove it right.
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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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In the world of cyber security, the last thing you want is to have a target painted on you.
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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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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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Open to everyone, regardless of where they come from, what they look like, how they worship or who they love.
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Certainly some things that are very good can sometimes be used in a bad way.
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Security isn’t just a feature, it’s a base, it’s a fundamental, right.
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So let me be clear: I’m proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me.
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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?
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My business is not reading your messages. I don’t have a business doing that. And it’s against my values to do that. I don’t want to read your private stuff.
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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.
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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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What makes Siri cool is she has a personality.
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So if hearing that the CEO of Apple is gay can help someone struggling to come to terms with who he or she is, or bring comfort to anyone who feels alone, or inspire people to insist on their equality, then it’s worth the trade-off with my own privacy.
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