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.
TIM COOKOur 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.
More Tim Cook Quotes
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The government should always be the one defending civil liberties.
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I am confident our best years lie ahead of us and that together we will continue to make Apple the magical place that it is.
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You can focus on things that are barriers or you can focus on scaling the wall or redefining the problem.
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Nobody wants to buy sour milk.
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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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Never try to fix other people. God does not need to do a bank shot off your lips.
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I am driven by great work and seeing people do incredible things and having a part in that.
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If you want me to do things only for ROI reasons, you should get out of this stock.
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From an app point of view, if you looked at innovation on the PC, you’d be hard pressed to find companies innovating. The list is small.
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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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I am who I am, and I’m focused on that, and being a great CEO of Apple.
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I love museums. But I don’t want to live in one.
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Android dominates the mobile malware market.
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A wave of legislation, introduced in more than two dozen states, would allow people to discriminate against their neighbors.
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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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