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 COOKWe’re very simple people at Apple. We focus on making the world’s best products and enriching people’s lives.
More Tim Cook Quotes
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Without encryption, you and I wouldn’t be able to do our banking online.
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People are running huge enterprises off of hacking and stealing data.
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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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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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I learned that focus is key. Not just in your running a company, but in your personal life as well.
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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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Apple is this great American company that could have only happened here.
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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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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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The government should always be the one defending civil liberties.
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Right to privacy is really important. You pull that brick out and another and pretty soon the house falls.
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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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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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The sidelines are not where you want to live your life. The world needs you in the arena!
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Discrimination, in all its forms, is bad for business.
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