"If Macintosh hadn't been successful, then I..." - Quote by Steve Jobs
If Macintosh hadn't been successful, then I should have just thrown in the towel, because my vision of the whole industry would have been totally wrong.
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“I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year. It's very character-building.”
“We try to use the talents we do have to express our deep feelings, to show our appreciation of all the contributions that came before us, and to add something to that flow. That's what's driven me.”
“This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It's very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now?”
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“The four Cs as secret of my success-curiosity, confidence,courage and constancy.”
“You must get your living by loving. But as it is said of the merchants that ninety-seven in a hundred fail, so the life of men generally, tried by this standard, is a failure, and bankruptcy may be surely prophesied.”
“If I am building a mountain and stop before the last basketful of earth is placed on the summit, I have failed.”
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“If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences.”
“And when one of you falls down he falls for those behind him, a caution against the stumbling stone. Ay, and he falls for those ahead of him, who though faster and surer of foot, yet removed not the stumbling stone.”
“I have had a lot of success with failure”