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 COOKApple 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.
More Tim Cook Quotes
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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.
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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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America is always stronger when we do things together.
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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,
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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.
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No one should have a key that turns a billion locks. It shouldn’t exist.
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We do a lot of things for reasons besides profit motive. We want to leave the world better than we found it.
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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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A few years ago, users of Internet services began to realize that when an online service is free, you’re not the customer. You’re the product.
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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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I don’t really think anything Microsoft does puts pressure on Apple.
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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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Apple is this great American company that could have only happened here.
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I am who I am, and I’m focused on that, and being a great CEO of Apple.
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Somebody gets it home and they feel great when they pay the money, but then they get it home and use it and the joy is gone.
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Price is rarely the most important thing. A cheap product might sell some units.
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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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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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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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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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I think everyone has to ask, how do companies make their money? Follow the money. And if they’re making money mainly by collecting gobs of personal data, I think you have a right to be worried.
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Security isn’t just a feature, it’s a base, it’s a fundamental, right.
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Everybody doesn’t want to have to be a computer scientist to protect themselves. Most people have no desire to do that.
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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.
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To whom much is given, much is expected. I do believe this. It’s embedded in me.
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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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